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From: Tim Walberg <twalberg@mindspring.com>
To: Christopher Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>,
	Cyrille Beraud <cyrille.beraud@savoirfairelinux.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Removing an executable while it runs
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:54:42 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011205145442.A12034@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C0E4487.6000704@savoirfairelinux.com> <3C0E4803.3BBF045B@didntduck.org> <3C0E7CCD.F9553BBD@nortelnetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C0E7CCD.F9553BBD@nortelnetworks.com> from Christopher Friesen on 12/05/2001 14:00

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On 12/05/2001 15:00 -0500, Christopher Friesen wrote:
>>	Couldn't you use mlockall() to ensure that demand paging is not a factor?  Then
>>	you should be able to free up the disk space since the actual application is
>>	guaranteed to be in ram.
>>	


mlockall() only locks those pages that are **currently** paged
in, or optionally those that will be paged in in the future.
Unless you have a way to make sure that all pages of the
binary are actually in memory before you call mlockall(),
this gains you nothing.



-- 
twalberg@mindspring.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-05 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-05 16:00 Removing an executable while it runs Cyrille Beraud
2001-12-05 16:14 ` Brian Gerst
2001-12-05 20:00   ` Christopher Friesen
2001-12-05 20:54     ` Tim Walberg [this message]
2001-12-06  0:25       ` Jeff Dike
2001-12-06 15:43         ` Eric-Olivier Lamey
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-05 17:15 Petr Vandrovec
2001-12-05 19:32 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-12-05 21:19 Petr Vandrovec

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