Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9

Daniel Phillips
2001-09-17T14:42:11Z

On September 17, 2001 02:41 pm, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On the other hand, Matt Dillon, the reigning champion of
> > virtual memory managment, was quite firm in stating that we should
> > drop the current virtually scanning strategy in favor of 100%
> > physical scanning as BSD uses, relying on reverse mapping.
> >
> > http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2000-05/msg00419.html
> > (Matt Dillon holds forth on the design of BSD's memory manager)
>
> His claims are backed up by FreeBSD's VM performance,
> so I'm inclined to believe them. If you think you can
> come up with something better, I'll believe you when
> you show it...

Rik, read the post, I'm supporting you. Please don't be so paranoid ;-)

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Daniel