Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Nov 1997 14:10:01 +0100 (MET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: fork: out of memory |
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On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 8 contiguous pages, pick the first free page and swap > > the data in the next 7 adjacent pages with other free > > b) is impossible: You would have to modify all pointers pointing to > that memory. Or you would have to use MM tricks which are slow - see > a).
well, not 'impossible', just 'very hard', probably needs assistance from the language (GCC), or a heavy rewrite.
-- mingo
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