Fedora 11: moving to posix file capabilities?

Michael Stone michael at laptop.org
Wed Oct 29 20:57:22 UTC 2008


On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:33:32PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> Could you please suggest some links to your favorite writeups of those
>> reasons?
>
>The PolicyKit docs have some:
>http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/intro-define-problem.html

Thanks for the link; reading now.

>> Also, do you have data on what effect (if any) this trend has
>> on steady-state system memory consumption?
>
>That's a good question - I think with system activation by default
>activated mechanisms will stay around, though obviously the kernel can
>page them out. 

Do you have data which suggest that the pages are all or mostly clean?
(I work on a system with no swap other than, maybe, compcache.)

Michael




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