Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:11:15 +0100 (CET) | From | Regis Duchesne <> | Subject | Re: mergemem: announce & design issues |
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> Mergemem can merge this anonymous mappings of already running processes. This concept is quite interesting
> *) If two equal pages are found, map one of them to the vm of both > processes, and free the spare page. (done in kernel-land) What do you mean by "two equal pages"? Do you only compare both checksums? I hope that when checksums match, you compare both entire pages too, so that the checksum is used as a hashcode only.
I wouldn't see a process crash because the checkums were the same and the pages weren't.
Regards,
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