Re: Memory Rusting Effect [re: Linux hostile to poverty]

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:37:21 +0200 (MEST)

Alan Cox wrote:
> > Depends. I have 127 processes running. About 25 will be in the "working
> > set". That leaves 100 processes whose task structure/kernel stack
> > could be swapped (maybe just a few things need to be kept in memory).
>
> You cant swap kernel stacks. They have stuff on them touched from other
> contexts. Im just talking about code space that isnt needed from interrupt
> context or for paging and is easily lockable as 2.3 item

You mean I could have a "struct timer" or "struct waitq" on there?
I tried that yesterday, but it crashed once the timer went off..... :-)
(May have been something else that was wrong though....)

Roger. 

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