Re: question on symbol exports

From: Dan Malek
Date: Mon Feb 07 2005 - 18:46:16 EST



On Feb 7, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

Interesting... more than no swap, you must also make sure you have no
r/w mmap'ed file (which are technically equivalent to swap).

Yeah, I kinda had a similar thought. Just because you aren't
swapping doesn't mean the VM subsystem isn't looking at dirty bits,
too. It could potentially steal a page that it thinks can be replaced
from either a zero-fill or reading again from persistent storage.


-- Dan

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