Re: [MiNT] virtual memory

[michael@fastlane.net (Michael White)]

>
>> > True enough, but with 4 GB I don't think you'll fragment that any
>> > time soon.  At least not to a point where it's unusable.
>> 
>> It fragment faster as we can think :-) After some uptime it's fragmented
>> the same way.
>
>Yep, it just takes longer before the fragmentation becomes a problem.
>Apart from that, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that when
>you resolve fragmentation this way (one huge address space), bits of
>allocated memory will be spread across the 4GB space which means you'll
>be swapping all the time even though you're not actually using as much
>RAM as you physically have. Or am I imagining this wrong?

Actually, no it will not.  But if I go with Frank's idea, the point
is moot anyway.

Michael White (michael@fastlane.net)