Ideal Swap Partition Size

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 09:03 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:42 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> > Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is explained in nearly all textbooks on Computer Architecture. So
> > > the question remains, where is the address space in Linux.
> > 
> > Patrick isn't the only one confused by your question.  I can't make 
> > heads or tails of it.  Are you asking where the mapping between the 
> > virtual address space and physical memory is done, or what?
> > 
> No I am asking where the virtual address space resides of the machine.

No, sorry, nothing coming through. The question as phrased makes no
sense.

If you're asking where does a given address in the virtual address space
map to, it depends on whether the corresponding page of the process
address space is currently in RAM, or on backing store (disk or
whatever), or nowhere because it hasn't been allocated, but the question
"where is the address space" has no meaning.

Furthermore, the *machine* as such has no "virtual address space".

poc