On Sun, 5 Apr 1998 21:23:50 +0200 (SAST), Mike Kilburn
<mike@conexio.co.za> said:
> BTW, do text pages on a ramdisk take up any additional physical memory when
> running? Are they cached?
Yes, and yes. The ramdisk lives in the buffer cache, which is block
aligned. Text pages need to be page aligned in the page cache, so there
is an additional copy involved.
--Stephen
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