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IIRC several years ago the Linux virtual memory manager started to optimistically write pages to swap when it was idle. If the VMM is tuned to do this more aggr
by andr 18y ago
IIRC several years ago the Linux virtual memory manager started to optimistically write pages to swap when it was idle. If the VMM is tuned to do this more aggressively, and not to invalidate the page file on reboot, you get the benefits of Phantom without the whole hassle of writing a new OS.
- cchooper 18y agoUnfortunately not, because a) the memory manager cannot guarantee a consistent system state in the swap file b) the kernel has no way of instantiating its own state from an image These are hard problems, which is why the people working on them usually start from scratch: http://www.eros-os.org/eros.html http://www.eros-os.org/eros.html