Re: Two naive questions and a suggestion

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>]

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
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