Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:17:36 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Barry Lustig <barry@Lustig.COM> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's changed recently with vmware/linuxemu/file I/O Message-ID: <200102131717.f1DHHa373170@earth.backplane.com> References: <14980.8856.555504.633075@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102101303001.20995-100000@besplex.bde.org> <14980.48507.507487.690557@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200102100616.f1A6GCf21887@earth.backplane.com> <3A896B57.DF61F266@Lustig.COM>
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:Matt Dillon wrote:
:> As far as I know vmware is not wiring pages down.
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:Actually, when vmware starts the number of wired pages, according to
:systat, jumps significantly.
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:barry
That doesn't mean VMWare is wiring them down, it simply means that
the pages have been mapped and accessed by the process. Pages referenced
by page tables are always wired in the system, but the wiring is
temporary.
-Matt
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