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On Nov 21, 2007 11:49 AM, Brian Kroth <bpkroth@××××.edu> wrote: |
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> - In the docs for ASLR it notes that a side effect is memory space |
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> fragmentation. How is this dealt with, if at all? Perhaps this isn't as big |
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> a problem as I think it is. |
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I don't know how it's dealt with, but in over two years of using it I |
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haven't seen any issue, from very small (64M) to very large (16G) |
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memory machines. I can imagine that there may be some performance |
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hit, but have never needed to benchmark to find out how much. |
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Wikipedia seems to have a decent discussion of it: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PaX_%28Linux%29 |
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I can't answer the other questions to my own satisfaction for you. |
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