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Date:      Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:02:19 +0100
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mmap bug 
Message-ID:  <E11Escl-000Nxv-00@fanf.noc.demon.net>
In-Reply-To: <199908112116.OAA77941@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <199908111819.LAA26998@implode.root.com>

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Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
>    One solution would be to map clean R+W pages RO and force a write fault
>    to occur, allowing the system to recognize that there are too many dirty
>    pages in vm_fault before it is too late and flush some of them.  The
>    downside of this is that, of course, we take unnecessary faults.

Surely they aren't unnecessary faults if they are required for correctness?

Tony.
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f.a.n.finch    dot@dotat.at    fanf@demon.net    e pluribus unix


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