Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-34,: Re: RFC: CONFIG_SWAP

# Re: RFC: CONFIG_SWAP

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:42:10 +0100 (GMT)

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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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