Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 19:18:12 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@campa.panke.de> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question for the VM gurus..! Message-ID: <199605161718.TAA01892@campa.panke.de> In-Reply-To: <199605151714.MAA22723@dyson.iquest.net> References: <199605151445.JAA12093@brasil.moneng.mei.com> <199605151714.MAA22723@dyson.iquest.net>
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John S. Dyson writes: >> If you set MADV_SEQUENTIAL on a region, if it has to fault a page "n" in, it >> looks like it discards all pages from 0 to n-1 in that region.. notably it >> does NOT seem to do anything if it doesn't have to fault a page in. >> >Is there only one process accessing the region? What happens if there >are other processes using that region also? Otherwise, that is easy to >do in our VM system. Is it possible to implement mmap for stdin? (MADV_SEQUENTIAL + MAP_ANON) Wolfram
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