> Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > Eh, parts of the kernel have always been pageable. That depends on
> 
> But AFAIK, dynamically allocated kernel memory is not paged out, right?
> 
Well, that depends of what you mean with "dynamically allocated". If you
use kernel malloc it won't be paged out because things may depend on
it being resident.

> > how memory is allocated. For example; page tables on VAXen have always
> > been possible to page out.
> 
> Is paging out page-tables dependend on the architecture, i.e. do
> some archs do it and others don't?
> 
Yep. I mean, I don't know about other arch's but this is strict 
machine-dependent.

-- Ragge