From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 7:25:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2094B14C8A for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 07:25:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11g7XI-0007ak-00; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:25:16 +0100 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA81038; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:25:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:25:16 +0100 (BST) From: J McKitrick To: David Greenman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: technical question about process loading In-Reply-To: <199910261344.GAA22496@implode.root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I understand the basic concept of demand paging, but does FBSD do this from the beginning, from the time the file is loaded? Meaning, it really does not load anything but the minimum of the binary into memory, and then the rest as it needs it? -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message