Re: wrong madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) semantic

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Tue Jun 28 2005 - 15:32:29 EST


Jörn Engel, le Tue 28 Jun 2005 22:17:04 +0200, a écrit :
> If the application knows 100% that it is the _only_ possible user of
> this data and will never again use it, dropping dirty pages might be a
> sane option. Effectively that translates to anonymous memory only.

And private file mappings?

Regards,
Samue
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