memory limits....

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Fri May 20 13:56:04 EDT 2005


On Friday 20 May 2005 2:02 pm, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:

> I think we are agreeing here, it is only if the text segment is modified.
> This, of course, rarely happens, but it can happen.
True, but the text segment in a Linux/Unix application is never modified. it 
is always mapped as readonly. Certainly, when a page is loaded from backing 
store it does not become a candidate for pageout until it is modified and 
marked as dirty. 
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