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Subject: RE: RH30: Virtual Mem shot heavily by locale-archive...
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 14:49 +0530, Arijit Das wrote:
> Shared mappings are represented in /proc/<pid>/maps file as having 's'
> as its last permission field like r-xs (shared readable and executable
> region)
> 
> But in this case, the perm bits are r--p which says that it is private
> rather than shared. Any idea whatz happening here...?

what is the problem??????
private mappings don't take up "extra" memory *unless you write to them*
due to copy-on-write behavior of the kernel. r--p means you can't
write.... so what's the problem..

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