True - a VDEV will be formed which can usually be taken out of the 4k already allocated for the VMDBK. Also segment and page tables required - maybe <= 8k David Kreuter
________________________________ From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Michael MacIsaac Sent: Tue 6/22/2004 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Expanded storage in VM - can it be used for linux swap? > When you create a vdisk for swap, it does NOT use any storage. > Really. Can you measure this? If you can't ... :)) I was under the impression that creating the VDISKs does take some memory for the data structures, though I'm not sure how much. -Mike MacIsaac, IBM mikemac at us.ibm.com (845) 433-7061 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
