memory limits....

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 14:57:28 -0400
> From: Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Subject: Re: memory limits....
> To: discuss at blu.org
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> On Thursday 19 May 2005 2:55 pm, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
>> Classically, text segments are not "swapped," but if they are modified
>> at
>> load time, they may be paged out.
> Not true. They are mapped in as read-only. Text segments are generally
> never
> paged out today.

I think we are agreeing here, it is only if the text segment is modified.
This, of course, rarely happens, but it can happen.