Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Feb 2005 09:36:20 -0600 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: question on symbol exports |
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Dan Malek wrote: > > 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.
In our existing case, the app also mlock()s the pages in question. This should get around these two possible sources of inaccuracy.
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