On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 18:07 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > The V7 manual doesn't quite agree with you. The sticky bit simply > indicates that the code segment for the binary should be kept around > in memory/swap (fast storage) not discarded. It might get set on a > tiny number of root apps to tune performance. Yes, I'd forgotten about the "keep it in swap" implications. Swap was of course always a separate partition and accessed contiguously, not via normal filesystem operations. That made reloading swapped segments faster than accessing the original file. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
