Tony Harminc wrote:

>So why do you want to know that a page is GETMAINed and paged out? What will 
>you do differently if your program finds this out? There are other 
>possibilities; a page can be accessible but not GETMAINed.

>VSMLIST can tell you if a page is GETMAINED, and LRA[G] can tell you if it's 
>paged in or out, but those things can change the moment you look away, or even 
>as you are looking, in a multiprocessor environment. 

Indeed, the moment you look and then look away, the page status and its content 
could changed totally within a blink of your eye.


>Unless you are running disabled or hold locks that you probably shouldn't be 
>holding.

If you throw away that virtual key? All your other address spaces will queue up 
to die.


>What are you trying to accomplish? Answer that and probably someone will 
>suggest the best approach.

Good question! ;-)

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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