On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Balaji Foss <balajig.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >I am asking silly doubt. Why embedded linux not having swap partition, I > > have scened many embedded distros(debian6, ubuntu,open embedded). All > have > > doe's not have swap partition. when I try to install with X86 it's > > mandatory swap will there. please guide me guys. > > AFAIK you don't need Virtual Memory in embedded devices and hence you don't > need the swap as well. > Swap memory is concerned with paging. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging You have virtual memory in embedded system. -Krishna _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
