On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:13:42 +0200, Christer Weinigel <wingel@signum.se>
said:
> What about embedded systems, without swap but with a PCMCIA flash file
> system the system boots from, what would you think about that, is 2.2
> or 2.0.36 better?
Without swap, and paging from a solid state device, by far the highest
priority is minimising the amount of ram that the kernel takes up, so I
guess 2.0 will be better.
> And while on the subject, do you think it would be a good idea to try
> to strip out the swap code from the kernel, to reduce its memory
> footprint or would that be a waste of time (I suppose it would break
> demand loading of binaries/libraries, which would be a big loss).
Not really. The swapin code is closely related to demand loading, as
you note. The swapout code is _very_ closely related to the mechanisms
for evicting unused pages of mapped files. There's not much to be
gained from removing swapping.
--Stephen
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