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- From: lclawson@ws17.ips.iacd.honeywell.com (Larry Clawson)
- Subject: Re: Any way around the "holding" of swap space?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.150701.9692@iacd>
- Sender: news@iacd (Unix News)
- Reply-To: lclawson@ips.iacd.honeywell.com
- Organization: Honeywell Industrial Automation and Control
- References: <1992Sep14.011913.10170@news.uiowa.edu> <7371312@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Distribution: comp.sys.hp
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 15:07:01 GMT
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- |>
- |> Are you sure this is happening? In HP-UX 8.0, text is normally never allocated
- |> swap at all; it is paged directly from the executable file image. The swap
- |> disappearance you are observing is more likely from the data/bss segments of
- |> shared libraries the program is linked with.
- |>
- |> --------------
- |> Marc Sabatella (marc@hpmonk.fc.hp.com)
- |> Disclaimers:
- |> 2 + 2 = 3, for suitably small values of 2
- |> Bill (H.) and Dave (P.) may not always agree with me
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-
- Along these same lines, is there any way to make the text swap??? If the
- executable file is across a network the time to retieve it is more than
- the time saved by not writting the text to swap.
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