question on symbol exports
Dan Malek
dan at embeddededge.com
Tue Feb 8 10:42:24 EST 2005
On Feb 7, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Interesting... more than no swap, you must also make sure you have no
> r/w mmap'ed file (which are technically equivalent to swap).
Yeah, I kinda had a similar thought. Just because you aren't
swapping doesn't mean the VM subsystem isn't looking at dirty bits,
too. It could potentially steal a page that it thinks can be replaced
from either a zero-fill or reading again from persistent storage.
-- Dan
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