Re: What is the truth about Linux 2.4's RAM limitations?

Timur Tabi
2001-07-10T17:04:15Z

Chris Wedgwood wrote:

>How does FreeBSD do this? What about other OSs? Do they map out most
>of userland on syscall entry and map it in as required for their
>equivalents to copy_to/from_user? (Taking the performance hit in doing
>so?)
>

I don't know about *BSD, but in Windows NT/2000, even drivers run in
virtual space. The OS is not monolithic, so address spaces are general
not "shared" as they are in Linux.

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Timur Tabi
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