Re: VM subsystem bug in 2.4.0 ?

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@innominate.de)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2001 - 17:47:31 EST

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Christoph Rohland wrote:
> As of 2.4.1-pre we pin the pages by increasing the page count for
> locked segments. No special list needed.

Sure no special list is needed. But without a special list to park
those pages on they will just circulate on the active/inactive lists,
wasting CPU cycles and trashing cache. A special list would be an
improvement, but is no burning issue.

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Daniel
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