Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268285AbUJOUlg (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:41:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268344AbUJOUlg (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:41:36 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:8845 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268285AbUJOUlc (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:41:32 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:41:23 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Albert Cahalan , Hugh Dickins , linux-kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton OSDL , Albert Cahalan Subject: Re: per-process shared information Message-ID: <20041015204123.GP5607@holomorphy.com> References: <1097846353.2674.13298.camel@cube> <20041015162000.GB17849@dualathlon.random> <1097857912.2669.13548.camel@cube> <20041015171355.GD17849@dualathlon.random> <1097862714.2666.13650.camel@cube> <20041015181446.GF17849@dualathlon.random> <20041015183025.GN5607@holomorphy.com> <20041015184009.GG17849@dualathlon.random> <20041015184713.GO5607@holomorphy.com> <20041015192313.GH17849@dualathlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041015192313.GH17849@dualathlon.random> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1032 Lines: 26 On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:47:13AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> workloads, rather it's known up-front that no fork()-based COW sharing >> is going on in Oracle's case, so in this case, "anonymous" very happily >> corresponds to "process-private". [..] On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 09:23:13PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Ok fine. On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:47:13AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> [..] In fact, the /proc/ changes to report >> threads only under the directory hierarchy of some distinguished thread >> assists in this estimation effort. On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 09:23:13PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > do you use threads now? I believe using threads to some extent has been an option for some time, though not a commonly used one on Linux. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/