Re: packaging of mergemem?
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Yann Dirson wrote:
> Vincent Renardias writes:
> > The mergemem project can reduce the memory usage of your application
> > server, but this will only work if there are a lot of instances of the
> > same command. Typical candidates are interpreters (emacs, perl, prolog
> > ...).
>
> I thought that the kernel already did that, at least for executable
> pages. Is it not the case ?
It is the case when the involved processes are in parent-child
relationship; Overwise the anonymous mappings aren't shared, thus
suplication of pages in memory.
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