From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: VM Vs Swap space Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 18:13:52 -0400 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4165BFA0.8010008@gelm.net> References: <9cb08bfa04100709095ebe08a1@mail.gmail.com> <20041007172157.63553.qmail@web52908.mail.yahoo.com> <9cb08bfa04100711494df0774@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: chuck@gelm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <9cb08bfa04100711494df0774@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Pratik Solanki Cc: Ankit Jain , linux-newbie Pratik Solanki wrote: >[CCing linux-newbie] > >On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:21:57 +0100 (BST), Ankit Jain > wrote: > > >>well i dont know exactly but somewhat i feel that >>there must be some way to disable the virtual memory. >>yaa of course there should be some way. it is not that >>sys cant work without it >> >> > >Yes, you can have a system without virtual memory. Search for MMUless >linux kernel and you'll see patches/websites. > >My point was that disabling VM after its been enabled would tough (if >not impossible). Someone correct me if I am wrong here. > >Pratik. > I was thinking that an active swap partition was 'virtual memory'. Why are many folks using capital letters 'VM'. Am I missing something? Is 'VM' == virtual memory or is there a application or service called 'VM' ? Anywho, the only 'virtual memory' I know of is an active swap file or swap partition and either can be started or stopped in a running kernel. (I think.) Regards, Chuck - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs