From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 31 8:17:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail-out1.apple.com (mail-out1.apple.com [17.254.0.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F187737BDAA for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 08:17:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from justin@apple.com) Received: from mailgate2.apple.com (A17-129-100-225.apple.com [17.129.100.225]) by mail-out1.apple.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA16392 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 08:17:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scv3.apple.com (scv3.apple.com) by mailgate2.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 31 May 2000 08:17:14 -0700 Received: from grinch ([17.219.158.68]) by scv3.apple.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA10426; Wed, 31 May 2000 08:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005311517.IAA10426@scv3.apple.com> To: Alain Jourez Subject: Re: Avoid Page swapping. Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 08:16:41 -0700 From: "Justin C. Walker" Reply-To: justin@apple.com x-mailer: Apple Mail (2.317) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, May 31, 2000, at 06:15 AM, Alain Jourez wrote: > Hi there, > > I beleive the sticky bit was used historically to prevent a whole > process to be swapped. What is the precise meaning of it ? The 'sticky' bit was, historically, intended to keep an executable's swap image around after the last process using it exited. This behavior was an optimization in a time when reading a swap image was noticeably faster than performing an 'exec'. For its current meaning, try 'man sticky'. Regards, Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message