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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
	Bryan Henderson <hbryan@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream...
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:46:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1138977966.2765.1.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602022159.04508.a1426z@gawab.com>

On Iau, 2006-02-02 at 21:59 +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> So w/ 1GB RAM, no swap, and 1TB disk mmap'd, could this mmap'd space be added 
> to the total memory available to the OS, as is done w/ swap?

Yes in theory. It would be harder to manage.

> And if that's possible, why not replace swap w/ mmap'd disk-space?

Swap is just somewhere to stick data that isnt file backed, you could
build a swapless mmap based OS but it wouldn't be quite the same as
Unix/Linux are.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-03 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-21 18:08 [RFC] VM: I have a dream Al Boldi
2006-01-21 18:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-21 18:46 ` Avi Kivity
2006-01-23 19:52   ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-25 22:04     ` Al Boldi
2006-01-26 19:18       ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-27 16:12         ` Al Boldi
2006-01-27 19:17           ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-30 13:21             ` Al Boldi
2006-01-30 13:35               ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-31 15:56                 ` Al Boldi
2006-01-31 16:34                   ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-31 23:14                     ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-31 16:34                   ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-01-31 19:23                   ` Jamie Lokier
2006-02-01  4:06                   ` Barry K. Nathan
2006-02-01  9:51                     ` Andrew Walrond
2006-02-01 17:51                       ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-02-01 18:21                         ` Andrew Walrond
2006-02-01 18:25                           ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-02-02 15:11                   ` Alan Cox
2006-02-02 18:59                     ` Al Boldi
2006-02-02 22:33                       ` Bryan Henderson
2006-02-03 14:46                       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-01-30 16:49               ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-26  0:03     ` Jon Smirl
2006-01-26 19:48       ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-22  8:16 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-22 12:33 ` Robin Holt
2006-01-23 18:03   ` Al Boldi
2006-01-23 18:40     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-01-23 19:26       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-23 19:40         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-01-23 22:26     ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-22 19:55 ` Barry K. Nathan
2006-01-23  5:23   ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-23  5:46     ` Chase Venters
2006-01-23  8:20       ` Barry K. Nathan
2006-01-23 13:17       ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-23 20:21         ` Peter Chubb
2006-01-23 15:05     ` Ram Gupta
2006-01-23 15:26       ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-23 16:11         ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-23 16:50           ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-24  2:08           ` Horst von Brand
2006-01-25  6:13             ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-25  9:23             ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-25  9:42               ` Lee Revell
2006-01-25 15:02                 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-25 23:24                   ` Lee Revell
2006-01-25 15:05               ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-25 15:47                 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-25 16:09                 ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-25 17:26                   ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-26 19:13                     ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-25 23:28                 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-26  1:29                   ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-26  5:01                   ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-26  5:11                     ` Lee Revell
2006-01-26 14:46                       ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-01-24  2:10           ` Horst von Brand
2006-01-25 22:27         ` Nix
2006-01-26 15:13           ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-26 16:23             ` Nix
2006-01-23 20:43       ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-23 22:42         ` Nikita Danilov
2006-01-24 14:36           ` Ram Gupta
2006-01-24 15:04             ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-24 20:59               ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-24 15:11             ` Nikita Danilov
2006-01-23 22:57         ` Ram Gupta
2006-01-24 10:08         ` Meelis Roos
2006-02-01 13:58 Al Boldi
2006-02-01 14:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-02-02 12:26   ` Al Boldi

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