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- From: shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair)
- Subject: Re: Virtual Memory curiosity
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:43:17 GMT
- Keywords: VM overflow response
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- dneedham@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Douglas Wade Needham) writes:
- >
- >Now here is one for thought...look for an executable that is swapped, flush
- >the text from the swap space (since it is supposedly read-only, and therefore
- >reproducable), and then mark the pages as not having been loaded. After that,
- >leave it to demand paging to pull it back in again. Then you can think of it
- >as a secondary swap with larger overhead. 8)
-
- Good idea, but not for AIX. Don't think AIX ever swaps the read-only stuff
- out in the first place.
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- Bob Shair shair@vnet.ibm.com
- Scientific Computing Specialist SHAIR@UIUCVMD (bitnet)
- IBM Champaign
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