From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dax.scot.redhat.com (dax.scot.redhat.com [195.89.149.242]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA14613 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:10:03 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 18:08:59 GMT Message-Id: <199811231808.SAA21383@dax.scot.redhat.com> From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Two naive questions and a suggestion In-Reply-To: <19981119002037.1785.qmail@sidney.remcomp.fr> References: <19981119002037.1785.qmail@sidney.remcomp.fr> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: jfm2@club-internet.fr Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Stephen Tweedie List-ID: Hi, On 19 Nov 1998 00:20:37 -0000, jfm2@club-internet.fr said: > 1) Is there any text describing memory management in 2.1? (Forgive me > if I missed an obvious URL) The source code. :) > 2) Are there plans for implementing the swapping of whole processes a > la BSD? Not exactly, but there are substantial plans for other related changes. In particular, most of the benefits of BSD-style swapping can be achieved through swapping of page tables, dynamic RSS limits and streaming swapout, all of which are on the slate for 2.3. --Stephen -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org