Re: Andres Freund > > > Why do we try to force the pages to be allocated at all? This is just > > > a monitoring function, it should not change the actual system state. > > The problem is that the kernel function just gives bogus results for pages > that *are* present in memory but that have only touched in another process > that has mapped the same range of memory.
Ok, so we leave the touching in, but still defend against negative status values? Christoph