Subject: Re: NOTE: Making UVM the default
To: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu>
From: Brian Buhrow <buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/27/1998 13:46:07
Has the problem with UVM and 386 processors been fixed?
-Brian
On Jul 24, 11:06am, Jason Thorpe wrote:
} Subject: Re: NOTE: Making UVM the default
} On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:18:12 -0400 (EDT)
} "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@mit.edu> wrote:
}
} > Unless someone knows of a remaining problem with UVM on the i386 port,
} > I'm going to make it the default later today.
}
} There is still a kmem_map usage problem on the x86, in particular with
} large memory systems w/ lots of swap. The problem is worse when MFS is
} used, because of the large anon region it maps.
}
} The intent is to solve the problem w/ the pool allocator, using a different
} map to map the pool pages... I'm currently working on one aspect of this.
}
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