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Date:      Wed, 2 Sep 1998 14:54:45 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ELF binaries size
Message-ID:  <19980902145445.24306@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199809020750.RAA15197@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 05:50:31PM %2B1000
References:  <199809020750.RAA15197@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 05:50:31PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >I think Bruce is mistaking the dual mapping for a single mapping,
> >on the theory that in a unified VM and buffer cache, there can be
> >only one instance of a page hung off the VP.
> 
> Nah.  The dual mapping is precisely what costs a full page of real memory.

Does this mean we have two copies instead of two mappings?  If we had
dual mapping only, we shouldn't be wasting anything beyond address
space and mapping-entries, which is much less precious than actual
physical memory pages...

Or am I missing something that should be obvious here?

Eivind.

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