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     7     Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
     7     Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
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    12 <concept xml:lang="en" id="GUID-A16508C2-2743-5E36-BCFB-C509ACCD372F"><title>Fixed processes</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody><p>A fixed process is a process in which its chunks always reside at the same linear address - their home address; only their access permissions are modified during a context switch. The usual re-mapping from the data section to the home section is not done and greatly improves performance.</p> <p>Fixed processes do not see the virtual machine model; each process must have its data at a different linear address. It is, therefore, not possible to run multiple copies of a fixed process.</p> <p>Fixed processes are suitable only for system server processes such as the file server, window server etc. since the majority of context switches involve these processes.</p> <section><title>See also</title> <p><xref href="GUID-8F1567B4-6957-5B93-9499-35489AD610F5.dita">chunks</xref> </p> <p><xref href="GUID-7287F1D4-023E-5C90-91E1-6D8DF78D8241.dita">virtual machine model</xref> </p> </section> </conbody></concept>
    12 <concept id="GUID-A16508C2-2743-5E36-BCFB-C509ACCD372F" xml:lang="en"><title>Fixed
       
    13 Processes</title><shortdesc>A fixed process is a process in which its chunks always reside
       
    14 at the same linear address - their home address; only their access permissions
       
    15 are modified during a context switch. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
       
    16 <p>The usual re-mapping from the data section to the home section is not done
       
    17 and greatly improves performance.</p>
       
    18 <p>Fixed processes do not see the virtual machine model; each process must
       
    19 have its data at a different linear address. It is, therefore, not possible
       
    20 to run multiple copies of a fixed process.</p>
       
    21 <p>Fixed processes are suitable only for system server processes such as the
       
    22 file server, window server etc. since the majority of context switches involve
       
    23 these processes.</p>
       
    24 </conbody><related-links>
       
    25 <link href="GUID-8F1567B4-6957-5B93-9499-35489AD610F5.dita"><linktext>chunks</linktext>
       
    26 </link>
       
    27 <link href="GUID-7287F1D4-023E-5C90-91E1-6D8DF78D8241.dita"><linktext>Virtual machine
       
    28 model</linktext></link>
       
    29 </related-links></concept>