Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Memory Rusting Effect [re: Linux hostile to poverty] | Date | Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:37:21 +0200 (MEST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > Depends. I have 127 processes running. About 25 will be in the "working > > set". That leaves 100 processes whose task structure/kernel stack > > could be swapped (maybe just a few things need to be kept in memory). > > You cant swap kernel stacks. They have stuff on them touched from other > contexts. Im just talking about code space that isnt needed from interrupt > context or for paging and is easily lockable as 2.3 item
You mean I could have a "struct timer" or "struct waitq" on there? I tried that yesterday, but it crashed once the timer went off..... :-) (May have been something else that was wrong though....)
Roger.
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