From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 22 15:45:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0097537B400 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 15:45:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0657.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.194.147] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16TAbw-0007XA-00 for chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 15:45:52 -0800 Message-ID: <3C4DF9AC.8BEEE7F6@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 15:45:48 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: More Humor on 4M paging issue Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org http://www.gentoo.org/ (about halfway down the page). Obviously, the Windows issue is that you would need to patch the VMM32.VXD code, so a registry hack is the easiest way to (not) deal with the problem. Apparently, they have not bothered to characterize the problem, or they would have worked around it in software. It's funny that they don't do that; I have to laugh. It's even funnier that FreeBSD accidently worked around the problem with its use of 4M pages in the kernel, by virtue of an order of operation choice that could have gone the other way. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message