Subject: Re: memory tester shows up swap/page tuning bug [was Re: BUFFERCACHE, PR 1903]
To: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no, jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi,>
From: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polder.ubc.kun.nl>
List: current-users
Date: 09/16/1996 18:38:28
ws@kurt.tools.de (Wolfgang Solfrank) wrote:
> Note that text pages are not normally moved to the swap space, as they will
> be paged from the original executable.

I've wondered about this (so far without UTSLing enough - shame on me),
but how do dynamically linked executables influence this? The linking
process does modify potentially many of the executable's pages, doesn't
it? And is sharing text pages still effective?

-Olaf.
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