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[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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