> it occured to me that there is no way this box can ever swap, so
> there's no point in the kernel being able to.
> My understanding of the mm code is decidedly nonexistant, so I'm not
> sure of the feasability of this, or even if it would help, but I would
> suspect that the ability to swap adds a fair amount to the size of the
> kernel? If so, would it be possible to make it a config option?
It has been discussed before - the swap code is inextricably tied
to the demand paging stuff.
Even if you could extract it, you wouldn't save much.
Matthew.
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