From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.phys.uu.nl (max.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA19706 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:39:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:06:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: New Linux-MM homepage In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Rik van Riel , Linux MM List-ID: On 19 Jun 1998, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >>>>> "RR" == Rik van Riel writes: > > RR> You can find it on: > > * The current code also has some small bugs regarding page aging and administration of > shared pages; they are scanned multiple times and we sometimes loose track of them. -> > Vnodes & shmfs. > > Q: We loose track of shared pages? I'm not aware of this, could I get > a better description. Well, there are several cases where we 'forget' about shared area's. One of them is where SysV shared memory is unmapped from all processes but the handle remains. Since we do page scanning by process, we can't find such an area. I don't know if this has been fixed by now, but I certainly remember the messages about it... > Suggestion: > We might possibly want to include on the developers page everyone's > email address, and then on the suggestions page just link back to the > developers page... OK, I'll do that. > Thanks for writing documentation. I am really bad at doing that. "To teach is to learn twice" I'm not a very productive programmer yet, I don't even do a CS study. By writing docs, I get to think about things more and as a result I am becoming a better programmer. Also, I really like it when people can actually use the code we're writing. We don't _just_ write it for fun... Rik. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+