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Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 22:39:11 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed?
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On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 07:08:33PM -0700, Wim Coekaerts wrote:
> running client etc. so it's not just using clone() and done... 

that seems a minor problem, you could still use shm and the "corner
cases" could attach to the shm as usual, but the "core" threads wouldn't
need replication of pagetables to use the shm.

Andrea