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.
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