VM2.0? it's not the first time i've heard something like that, is there any information about it?
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Bart Smaalders <bart.smaalders at sun.com> wrote: > Marion Hakanson wrote: >> >> ervacon at gmail.com said: >>> >>> When the system is largly idle the gnome desktop feels fast and snappy, >>> and >>> interaction is very immediate. However, when I start a heavy background >>> process (for instance a maven build of a large Java application), CPU >>> utilization shoots to 100% on both CPU cores (which is good!), but my >>> whole >>> desktop becomes sluggish, even mouse movement becomes erratic. >> >> It's not necessarily CPU contention that's making things slow. ?My systems >> behave this way when RAM is short; ?Xorg or window-manager get paged out, >> and things get jerky/erratic. > > Our original prototype for the IA class back in the early 90s (!) did > influence memory allocation, but this wasn't really tenable in a scheduling > class. ?It did work very well, however. > > http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/cinci93/full_papers/evans.txt > > > True control of RAM given to various processes awaits the VM2.0 project, > which is currently underway. ?Attempts to correctly schedule memory use > w/ the current VM system have been unsuccessful despite rather valiant > efforts. > > - Bart > > -- > Bart Smaalders ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Solaris Kernel Performance > barts at cyber.eng.sun.com ? ? ? ? http://blogs.sun.com/barts > "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org >
