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Date:      Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:25:56 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org (Jonathon McKitrick)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question about page faults and swap space
Message-ID:  <200411161626.iAGGQte20071@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20041116162329.GD50871@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> from "Jonathon McKitrick" at Nov 16, 2004 04:23:29 PM

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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?
> 

Close enough.

////jerry

> jm
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