jb <jb.1234abcd <at> gmail.com> writes: > ... > "The related implementation in FreeBSD seems to have a similar problem: > > NetBSD users have also reported that UVM’s im- provements have had a positive > effect on their applica- tions. This is most noticeable when physical memory > becomes scarce and the VM system must page out data to free up memory. > Under BSD VM this type of paging causes the system to become highly > unresponsive, while > under UVM the system slows while paging but does not become unresponsive. > http://static.usenix.org/event/usenix99/full_papers/cranor/cranor.p... > > Should be easy to fix: just start to page out some stuff in time before > there is no memory left." > ...
Would this mean that FreeBSD's (and Mach's ?) MM subsys are behind NetBSD's ? If so, should FreeBSD adopt NetBSD's MM subsys, or just improve itself surgically ? jb _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
