Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:35:17 -0500 (EST) | From | Michael Bacarella <> | Subject | Re: Some questions about linux kernel. |
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> Some box with long uptime. init on it has been running since it > was booted up. So it is likely to accumulate a lot pagefault over time. > For example I have here this box with 484 days of uptime. Let say that > tomorrow "the evil program" starts, It might it take a while before it > accumulates more page faults than init. ... but I guess we don't need to > worry about this scenarios since I think you talk about fault RATE not > total faults.
That might be acceptable to some (probably most), but what happens if you have a crontab scheduled to run in a few months? Crond would be sleep()'ing 99.99% of the time and thusly acquire very very few page faults.
I have no better ideas, though. :)
-MB
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