From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759836AbXEMSqW (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 14:46:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757993AbXEMSqF (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 14:46:05 -0400 Received: from mtagate3.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.136]:2839 "EHLO mtagate3.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757706AbXEMSqC (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 14:46:02 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 20:45:22 +0200 From: Heiko Carstens To: Rodrigo Amestica Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: is linux still a none swappable kernel? Message-ID: <20070513184522.GA9819@osiris.ibm.com> References: <464746EC.10608@nrao.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <464746EC.10608@nrao.edu> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 01:12:12PM -0400, Rodrigo Amestica wrote: > In some older posts I have read that memory allocations via kmalloc > and vmalloc are not swappable, that is, these memory chunks are not > paged out to swap area. Is this still the case with linux kernel 2.6? Yes.