Re: is linux still a none swappable kernel?

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 01:12:12PM -0400, Rodrigo Amestica wrote:
> In some older posts I have read that memory allocations via kmalloc
> and vmalloc are not swappable, that is, these memory chunks are not
> paged out to swap area. Is this still the case with linux kernel 2.6?

Yes.
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