[Apparently], Frank van der Linden <frank@fwi.uva.nl>  writes:
>> The main problem is, that the VM system does not know about the existance
>> of the I/O buffer cache.k

cgd replies:

>hah.  you can work around that.

>the main problem is that if you malloc() (sizeof RAM) + (sizeof swap),
>the system will crash.


Tommyrot.  Balderdash.  Try running "tail -f" on an NFS-mounted filesystem.
(How does one work around  that?)

--Jonathan