Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Mar 2003 11:01:31 -0500 (EST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 vm, program load, page faulting, ... |
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Paul Albrecht wrote: > >> ... Why does the kernel page fault on text pages, present in the page > >> cache, when a program starts? Couldn't the pte's for text present in the > >> page cache be resolved when they're mapped to memory? > > SVR4 did and saw an improvement wrt. page fault rate, according to > Vahalia.
An improvement in the _page fault rate_, well DUH.
> I'd like to see whether this is useful for Linux.
The question is, does it result in an improvement in the run speed of processes...
cheers,
Rik
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