read-only nss/dcss pages are most certainly paged out. They are not reloaded from spool. read-write nss/dcss pages different story they are read in fresh from spool Finding which nss pages are on a disk is probably a smaller control block chase than going through the vmdbk chain. Looked at that a bit yesterday and was a bit of a head scratcher. David
>However, this got me to wondering about DCSSes or NSSes. What happens when a >user or group of users request a DCSS or NSS and do not use all of it? Do >unused portions of DCSSes and NSSes get paged out or just deleted >as they can >be reloaded if they are needed? Where I am going with the question is, could >that page on the PAGE belong to a portion of a DCSS or NSS that many users may >eventually need? ... >Good luck, >Jim
