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Date:      Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:58:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>
Cc:        Paul Richards <paul@inty.com>
Subject:   Re: Text file busy
Message-ID:  <200309041858.h84IwmUv029227@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <1062686653.67807.77.camel@localhost> <3F578250.7020100@acm.org>

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:Tim
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:P.S. I wonder if demand-paging of executables is still a win for
:program startup on modern systems with dynamically-linked executables?
:Large reads are a lot more efficient, and it seems that dynamic
:linking might cause more startup thrashing.  Hmmm...

    Yes, they are a big win 95% of the time.  Don't worry, the kernel will
    pre-fault pages that are already cached in memory (to a point), and
    the kernel will also cluster pagein operations if actual I/O becomes
    necessary.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>



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