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Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 21:07:45 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> This is a nice dump format.  One thing that would be very helpful is
> the page executable flag, another would be the writable flag.  The
> 4687 anonymous pages are the elephant under the rug, but we don't know
> how they break down between executable (evictable) and otherwise.

Anonymous pages and executable pages are mutually exclusive.

Executable pages are ALWAYS mapped from a file, and thus
never anonymous.

regards,

Rik
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