On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Stas Bekman wrote:
 
> See the discussion on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list,
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=101659730800001&r=1&w=2
> where it was said that it's
> a very bad idea to use mlock and variants. Moreover the memory doesn't 
> get unshared
> when the parent pages are paged out, it's the reporting tools that 
> report the wrong
> information and of course mislead the the size limiting modules which 
> start killing
> the processes. As a conclusion to this thread I've added the following 
> section to
> the performance chapter of the guide:
> 

Are we saying then that libgtop is erroneous in its reporting under these 
circumstances? And in the case of Linux, I'm asusming libgtop just reads its info 
straight from /proc. Is /proc erroneous then?

-- Dan
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