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From: Jeremy F. <je...@go...> - 2005-02-25 05:15:35
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Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
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>> * big-bang shadow allocation causes problems on kernels that don't
>> do overcommitment
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>> * a fixed partitioning scheme is less appropriate if we move towards
>> compressed representations of shadow memory, since that compression
>> ratio could be variable
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> Plus all the other problems mentioned in bug #82301, which we've
> talked about at length multiple times in the past.
The only additional problem in that bug is the difficulty with loading
large symbol files, which won't be helped by the superblock scheme at
all; it will be made worse. But that's OK, because the symtab reader
needs to be fixed anyway.
J
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