Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267864AbUJGTcy (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:32:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267595AbUJGTbY (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:31:24 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33176 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267850AbUJGTaW (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:30:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:30:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Ankit Jain cc: linux Subject: Re: VM Vs Swap Space In-Reply-To: <20041007091753.34564.qmail@web52903.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 677 Lines: 18 On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Ankit Jain wrote: > (2) is it correct to use the term interchangeably No. Virtual memory can mean a lot of other things, including the address space of individual processes, or the kernel address space. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/