Hi Rik,
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 16 Nov 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:
>> Also we have to make sure to derefence the swap entry if the
>> last reference is in the shm segmant table .
>
> Why is this?
Because you never get a page fault on the shm segmants. So you never
will exchange a swap entry with a real page in these segments
automatically.
Actually I think the best approach would be to replace the entry on
the first swapin.
Greetings
Christoph
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