On Thursday 06 January 2005 23:15, Guy wrote: > If I MUST/SHOULD have swap space.... > Maybe I will create a RAM disk and use it for swap! :) :) :) Well, indeed, I had the same thought. As long as you could guarantee that the ram was of the highmem/non-dmaable type... But we're getting ahead of ourselves. I think we need an authoritive answer to the original premise. Perhaps Alan (cc-ed) might spare us a moment? Did I dream this up, or is it correct? "I think the gist was this: the kernel can sometimes needs to move bits of memory in order to free up dma-able ram, or lowmem. If I recall correctly, the kernel can only do this move via swap, even if there is stacks of free (non-dmaable or highmem) memory." Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
