Re: Memory intensive processes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 12 Dec 1996 19:28:35 +0000 (GMT)

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> a very good idea since page tables are in virtual memory and swappable
> themself in VMS...

In theory we can do that in Linux. Theres some horrible races and an
early pentium race condition to worry about but nothing intrinsicly
prevents it.

Alan

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