From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759402AbXEMRXW (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 13:23:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757595AbXEMRXI (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 13:23:08 -0400 Received: from cv3.cv.nrao.edu ([192.33.115.2]:57428 "EHLO cv3.cv.nrao.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757324AbXEMRXH (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 13:23:07 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 648 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 13:23:07 EDT Message-ID: <464746EC.10608@nrao.edu> Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 13:12:12 -0400 From: Rodrigo Amestica User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070301) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: is linux still a none swappable kernel? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact postmaster@cv.nrao.edu for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-101.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44, USER_IN_WHITELIST -100.00) X-MailScanner-From: ramestic@nrao.edu Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? thanks,