Messages in this thread | | | From | Balaji Srinivasan <> | Subject | Re: New syscall (rough draft), swap_out_pid() | Date | Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:52:25 -0500 (EST) |
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--------George wrote---------- > > > Basically I got tired of seeing processes hanging around in memory when I > knew they weren't going to use it. This will swap out portions of a > program and so far hasn't bombed on my computer. It probably needs a > suser() check but this is preliminary anyway just to see what people think. > It works in chunks so it has to be called repeatedly at the moment. I > don't know if this will swap out too much than swap space, haven't tested > that part. I do know, however, that if you try to swap out a process that > is running, it won't kill the process because it'll simply be swapped back > in when it needs something.
I dont think this would work as you expect it to...as swap_out_process does not swap_out the whole process, but just one page...am I wrong here? balaji -------------------------------------------------------------------- Balaji Srinivasan Email: sbalaji@fore.com
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