Just thought I'd add aother one while I'm thinking about it: (our vm shall) - treat swap disk space as additional (slow) memory, so that the effective amount of memory available to programs increases by the amount of the swap space. [obvious? yes, but that's not what we had in 2.4.0] Rik, wli, are you going to ante up? And anyone else who wants to give it a shot. If you're shy, bear in mind that there are still lots of obvious requirements not in the list. (Example: support multiple swap partitions. Support swap partitions which are actually files on any Linux filesystem.) -- Daniel -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/