Re: swap and 2.4.20

[Maciej Zenczykowski]

> I remember Linus ranting about swap at one point, but it's been a while.
> 
> What is the current state of the need for swap on a linux kernel, 2.4.20 in 
> specific. Does it need *any*, given some reasonable amount of RAM? What 
> constitutes a reasonable of RAM?
> 
> My recent experience suggest none is needed.

I have a different - slightly academic - question.  Is it possible to turn
off swapping? (not turn off swap)  Ie. to prevent the kernel from
unloading paged-in read-only executables?  I realise this is a tough
question with mmap being used for many other things besides executables...

Thanks,
MaZe.

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