Re: objrmap-core-1 (rmap removal for file mappings to avoid 4:4 in <=16G machines)

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > could you just try test-mmap2.c on such a box, and hit swap?

> Unless it crashes the machine I don't care, it's totally wrong in my
> opinion to hurt everything useful to save cpu while running an
> exploit. there are easier ways to waste cpu (rewrite the exploit with
> truncate please!!!)

i'm not sure i follow. "truncate being slow" is not the same order of
magnitude of a problem as "the VM being incapable of getting work done".

	Ingo
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