At 05:15 PM 10/27/2001 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

>Lars Heidieker <lars@heidieker.de> writes:
> > I think there has been some discussion about the fact that libraries
> > are not acounted as vtext at all (in the current implementation).
>
>They should be, that's the thing. If a file is mmap'ed executable, it
>should be counted as vtext. It will fix a lot of problems.
That's absolutely true, but also for the data section we should take into 
account if they are mapped into a process or not.
That way vtext and anon and mmap'ed files would be handle by lru 
approximation and fs-cache-only pages would have a highe priority on 
leaving physical memory. If we had the priority difference between 
vtext/anon and vnode it would result in different behaviour for processes 
how have cow'ed their datasections (converted them to anons) and those who 
haven't (vnode but not vtext for datasection).

Lars