In article <4769.9602090250@calvay.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> writes:
> With such a condemned list in memory, we'd never have to keep ANY
> memory free just in case. Even IRQs would be permitted to gobble up
> condemned pages. This scheme would give quite a lot of slack in the
> VM, and represents the best use of memory. But it would take a lot
> more work to implement than 1) to 4).
Would this mean, that we could implement swapping via NFS? As far as I
know, this is currently difficult because you need to allocate some
memory in order to do the swapping.
Markus
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