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From: hurtta@dionysos.fmi.fi (Kari E. Hurtta)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: mystery page faults
Date: 19 Jan 1996 15:19:36 GMT
Organization: Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
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username@iaccess.com.au (Real Name) writes comp.unix.admin:
»I have these mysterious page faults showing up.

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»When ever I check swap space there is never any used.

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Modern OSes does loading of programs by page faulting. 

Perhaps also file IO is done by page faulting?