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Date:      Thu, 12 Aug 1999 23:52:08 -0700
From:      Arun Sharma <adsharma@home.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mmap bug
Message-ID:  <19990812235208.A17058@home.com>
In-Reply-To: <E11Escl-000Nxv-00@fanf.noc.demon.net>; from Tony Finch on Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 12:02:19PM %2B0100
References:  <199908111819.LAA26998@implode.root.com> <199908112116.OAA77941@apollo.backplane.com> <E11Escl-000Nxv-00@fanf.noc.demon.net>

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On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 12:02:19PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
> 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?

They _are_ unnecessary faults, if other correct solutions exist. 
The second alternative - to mark system daemons as special
sounds much more attractive.

	-Arun



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