Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:23:29 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about page faults and swap space Message-ID: <20041116162329.GD50871@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20041116161411.GE80412@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20041116160851.GB50871@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20041116161411.GE80412@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:14:11AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: : Accesses to executable images or mmaped files will cause page faults. : They'll show up as vnode pageins as opposed to swap pageins in "vmstat : -s" or "systat -v". Ah, yes. I think I remember now. You don't actually 'load' all of an executable, you just map it to memory, and when an address is accessed the first time, it generates a page fault to bring it in, right? jm -- My other computer is your Windows box.
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