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SubjectRe: shm swapping in 2.4 again
On 16 Nov 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:

> Oh, I missed one point: we need to handle the swapout of
> nonattached pages: in shm you can detach the last user and the
> segment with content is still around. So we have to scan the shm
> objects themselves also. Should We could do this in the same
> loop as we scan the mm's?

Sounds like a good idea. If we scan the nonattached segments
just as agressively as we scan the mm's, things should be
balanced just fine.

> Also we have to make sure to derefence the swap entry if the
> last reference is in the shm segmant table .

Why is this?

regards,

Rik
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