>>> On Sat, Sep 1, 2007 at 7:09 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > How much progress has been made (if any?) towards setting up the Linux > instance to have a maximized number of read-only memory segments that are > able to be defined as shared (in VM's terms)? It seems that VM's shared > segment support could do wonders to reduce the Linux working set.
This varies quite a bit from system image to system image. I'm not aware of anyone working on a "standard" set of them. Ihno Krumreich and I are bouncing around some ideas for a tool or tools that would make it easier to create them. XIP2FS has been shown to provide enough benefits to make that worthwhile, I believe. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
