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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 13:50:30 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [rfc] no ZERO_PAGE?
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On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:11:11 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> As I understand the patch being considered to remove ZERO_PAGE(), this
> kind of core dump will cause a lot of pages to be allocated, probably
> eating up a lot of system time as well as memory.

Point.

Also, what effect will the proposed changes have upon rss reporting,
and upon the numbers in /proc/pid/[s]maps?