Re: PATCH: Swap shared pages (was: How to read-protect a vm_area?)

Rik van Riel
1998-02-25T10:41:20Z

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> That is already scheduled as part of phase 4 of this work. The patch I
> have just posted is phase 2, modifying the swapper for shared pages.
> Phase three is to implement MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, and part four is
> to do much what you describe, proactively soft-swapping data out

Hmm, is there anything I can do to help with this, or
will that just confuse things ? :-(
If not, I'll be working on buffer/cache memory limits
so one file/process can't clog up all of memory (a'la
badblocks -w), of course with DU like tunability...

Rik.
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