Re: 'disposable' dirty pages [was: Out Of Memory in v. 2.1]

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 10 Oct 1998 12:47:37 +0100

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On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 01:14:18PM -0400, Kenneth Albanowski wrote:
> This does bring me back to what I said originally. Are you _sure_ that we
> aren't describing some that is actually better then mmaping /dev/zero?

Er, indeed we are describing something better than mapping /dev/zero.
Discardable pages don't need to be mappings of /dev/zero, in fact.
It could equally apply to many other kinds of mmap.

-- Jamie

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