Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 9 Mar 1998 22:43:09 +0100 | | From | Martin von Loewis <> | | Subject | Re: mmap() versus read() |
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> Why does Linux page executables from their original location? Isn't > that slower than putting it into the swapfile because you have to > wade through the filesystem layer when you need to page in? Or is > the penalty for writing it into the swap bigger than the filesystem > overhead?
Yes.
Martin
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