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- From: dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert)
- Subject: Any way around the "holding" of swap space?
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 01:19:13 GMT
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- I'm wondering if there is any way around HP-UX's "holding" of swap space for
- shared text images. If I have a program which has, say 250K of text in the
- processes' address space, this is shared over multiple occurrances of the
- same executable, this I understand. What I *don't* understand is why each
- occurrance of the program reserves that 250K in swap, even though there is
- only one image really in memory to swap anyway (and with enough occurrances
- of this text, you wouldn't WANT it swapped anyway!)
-
- Is there no way around this? Maybe setting the sticky bit has an effect on
- this? Or do we just wait for HP-UX 9.0 (or is this not even fixed in that?!)
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