Re: Locking physical memory (RAM) under Windows

Andrew Loewenstern (andrew_loewenstern@swissbank.com)
Tue, 16 Jun 98 17:25:52 -0500

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Marcus Watts writes:
> I think a better term here would be "pinned". A "lock" can
> mean many things - another common use for the word "lock" is
> to "lock" a data

There already is at least one term in use and it is "wired down" ... This is
the term used by the Mach operating system (soon to be Apple's main kernel) to
describe pages that are marked as being unswappable (all kernel memory is wired
down for instance).

andrew

$ vm_stat
Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes)
Pages free: 2816.
Pages active: 10390.
Pages inactive: 1665.
Pages wired down: 1059.
"Translation faults": 60064611.
Pages copy-on-write: 25635303.
Pages zero filled: 1485823.
Pages reactivated: 1016174.
Pageins: 37323.
Pageouts: 18449.
Object cache: 125511 hits of 144219 lookups (87% hit rate)
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