Andreas Hansson <Andreas.Hansson@...> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Imagine simulating a system with terabytes of memory. Most likely a lot of
> this memory will be untouched, and the host system can get away without
> ever allocating the pages. If we now take a checkpoint and later restore,
> we want to make sure this property does not go away. Hence, we avoid
> touching the pages that are 0.
> 
> Andreas



Thanks for the response! So I understand what you are saying 
but what if a region of memory is actually 0 
(i.e maybe there is an array of millions of 
elements which are all 0). 
Doesn't this code never restore that portion of memory?




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