Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 19:15:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> To: dyson@iquest.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory management details Message-ID: <199708151715.TAA26923@ocean.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <19970813173721.11238.qmail@iquest7.iquest.net> from "dyson@iquest.net" at "Aug 13, 97 12:37:21 pm"
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According to dyson@iquest.net: [...] > > 4)Or for that matter a project to add "swap files"? What is the > > maximum number of swap partitions allowed by the architecture? > > > That is a "bounded" project, that is pretty well understood, but just > not done yet. I don't think that anyone has made any progress. Not > to say that it is easy to do "right", but developing a properly > functioning swap on/ swap off a file is less risky than any of the above. > (The ONLY reason that we don't support swap-on directly, is that I don't > want to see it until we get a swap-off also.) The swap-off is not > trivial, but isn't brain-surgery either. Umm... I think I'm missing something here. You, John, should know most things in the VM category better then anyone, and you say we don't have it. Others say we do. What's the deal here? /Mikael
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