A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? On 05/06/07, Devvrat Tripathi <tripathidevvrat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I dont exactly get the syscall swapon thing properly. Swap is supposed to be activated by the kernel right incase the main memory gets filled up. I dont understand how the kernel uses this system call as you cannot do system calls from kernel space or is there some daemon which is responsible to do this job.
The kernel starts up without swap. Then the root user (or usually an init script) runs the 'swapon' command which executes the system call, causing the kernel to activate swap. See 'man 8 mkswap', 'man 8 swapon' and 'man 8 swapoff' as well as 'man 2 swapon' and 'man 2 swapoff'. -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
