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Date:      Sun, 6 Feb 2005 04:37:32 -0500 (EST)
From:      Michael Hines <mhines@cs.fsu.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   increasing swap activity
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.61.0502060431480.25671@diablo.cs.fsu.edu>

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I've written a remote-memory system for a thesis of mine. As a result, I'm able to setup a diskless client that swaps to remote 
memory instead of a remote disk. The specifics, reasons, and design of the 
system are a long story....

However - this system allows for much faster page-fault latencies (on the 
order of 10-20 times faster than using a disk for swap space). The 
problem is: I cannot get the swapper to page-out or page-in data any 
faster.

My end question is: how would one DRASTICALLY increase the rate at which 
the system does its paging in freebsd?

Everthing I find on the net says "don't mess with freebsd's VM system or 
you'll die and go to hell."

However, I do in fact need to drastically increase the paging bandwidth.

Anybody know how? Preferably during runtime?

Thanks a lot.

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Michael R. Hines
Grad Student, Florida State
Dept. Computer Science
http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~mhines/
Jusqu'a ce que le futur vienne...
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