On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:05:06 +1000, Shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 13:51 -0500, Rugen, Len wrote: >> I'm not a linux expert, but the admins here want to build linux servers >> without swap space, so would that mean that they had no virtual storage? >> I tried to explain the difference in swap SIZE and RATE but they just >> kept repeating "ram is cheap". > >A sufficiently well resourced Linux will run quite happily sans swap. >There is even a kernel option to turn off the swap daemon. Happens all >the time in the embedded market.
Sure, but that doesn't mean that there is no virtual storage on such a system. The dynamic mapping of addresses is as important conceptually (and practically) as the idea of paging. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
