Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:42:10 +0100 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: RFC: CONFIG_SWAP |
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On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Mike wrote:
> it occured to me that there is no way this box can ever swap, so > there's no point in the kernel being able to.
> My understanding of the mm code is decidedly nonexistant, so I'm not > sure of the feasability of this, or even if it would help, but I would > suspect that the ability to swap adds a fair amount to the size of the > kernel? If so, would it be possible to make it a config option?
It has been discussed before - the swap code is inextricably tied to the demand paging stuff.
Even if you could extract it, you wouldn't save much.
Matthew.
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