Re: Swapped out truly zero pages & big scientific calculations
Mark Hemment (markhe@sco.COM)
Thu, 16 Jan 1997 10:58:50 +0000 (GMT)
mingo wrote:
> This minipatch is for making statistics about how many truly zero
> content (but otherwise totally private mapped) pages are swapped
> out in the system. As it has to check for every page swapped out
> wether it's zero or not, it slows down swapping ... it's really
> just for making statistics.
I like this, I'll try and get some stats on my box.
I believe it's not going to slow down paging out to swap by a
noticable amount, and if a zero page is found it can be added to the
pool of zero pages...
markhe