>Swap memory is concerned with paging. >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging>
Paging is part of Virtual Memory. Page tables maintain the mapping between the Virtual Memory and the Physical Memory. >You have virtual memory in embedded system. Embedded systems generally dont have Virtual Memory because the access times are non deterministic. Cheers, - Balaji On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Krishna <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Balaji Foss <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >I am asking silly doubt. Why embedded linux not having swap partition, I > > > have scened many embedded distros(debian6, ubuntu,open embedded). All > > have > > > doe's not have swap partition. when I try to install with X86 it's > > > mandatory swap will there. please guide me guys. > > > > AFAIK you don't need Virtual Memory in embedded devices and hence you > don't > > need the swap as well. > > > > Swap memory is concerned with paging. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging > > You have virtual memory in embedded system. > > -Krishna > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
