On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 05:45:17PM -0500, Willmore, David wrote:
>Since it's a cache reading problem there's no real way to 'flush' it.
>Normally, that means to write back dirty data to whatever backing store
>exists, not 'invalidate everything'. Even if you did, it would't solve the
>problem.
How does swap space come into this? Linux isn't forced to swap the data
in exactly where it used to be, is it?
>[removed excellent explanation on what's going on]
Thanks. :-)
>Yes, it would probably be easier in Linux, but it might not do you any good.
Perhaps I could do a manual restart if it was a problem? (I can thing of
several crazy ways to do this... Perhaps fill the all the buffers with
some random number, and find them in /proc/kcore? ;-) )
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