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Rev

Thanks for the great answer. Appreciate it. I read the LWM article and that inspired me ask few more questions, so I added them to my question above.

Ankur Agarwal
– Ankur Agarwal

2012-03-04 21:01:11 +00:00
Commented Mar 4, 2012 at 21:01
Great! it is very very helpful!!

camino
– camino

2012-03-30 06:01:09 +00:00
Commented Mar 30, 2012 at 6:01
I'm still confused about shared_dirty - is the dirty nature of this preventing it from being shared still?

Kevin
– Kevin

2013-06-17 23:40:34 +00:00
Commented Jun 17, 2013 at 23:40
@Kevin: if they weren't shared, they wouldn't be accounted in Shared_Dirty - could you clarify your question?

Mat
– Mat

2013-06-18 04:26:13 +00:00
Commented Jun 18, 2013 at 4:26
dirty means modified from the orig. process, right? which isn't that how it goes from being shared to being local?

Kevin
– Kevin

2013-06-19 04:43:13 +00:00
Commented Jun 19, 2013 at 4:43

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