Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Oct 2003 16:05:15 +0200 (CEST) | From | Maciej Zenczykowski <> | Subject | Re: swap and 2.4.20 |
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> I remember Linus ranting about swap at one point, but it's been a while. > > What is the current state of the need for swap on a linux kernel, 2.4.20 in > specific. Does it need *any*, given some reasonable amount of RAM? What > constitutes a reasonable of RAM? > > My recent experience suggest none is needed.
I have a different - slightly academic - question. Is it possible to turn off swapping? (not turn off swap) Ie. to prevent the kernel from unloading paged-in read-only executables? I realise this is a tough question with mmap being used for many other things besides executables...
Thanks, MaZe.
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