Re: RFC: design for new VM

From: lamont@icopyright.com
Date: Thu Aug 03 2000 - 13:27:09 EST


CONFIG_VM_FREEBSD_ME_HARDER would be a nice kernel option to have, if
possible. Then drop it iff the tweaks are proven over time to work
better.

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:08:52PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> here is a (rough) draft of the design for the new VM, as
> discussed at UKUUG and OLS. The design is heavily based
> on the FreeBSD VM subsystem - a proven design - with some
> tweaks where we think things can be improved.
>
> Can the differences between your system and what FreeBSD has be
> isolated or contained -- I ask this because the FreeBSD VM works
> _very_ well compared to recent linux kernels; if/when the new system
> is implement it would nice to know if performance differences are
> tuning related or because of 'tweaks'.
>
>
>
> --cw
>
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