Messages in this thread |  | | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Subject | Re: shm swapping in 2.4 again | Date | 17 Nov 2000 09:08:02 +0100 |
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Hi Rik,
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 16 Nov 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote: >> Also we have to make sure to derefence the swap entry if the >> last reference is in the shm segmant table . > > Why is this?
Because you never get a page fault on the shm segmants. So you never will exchange a swap entry with a real page in these segments automatically.
Actually I think the best approach would be to replace the entry on the first swapin.
Greetings Christoph
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