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Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 00:56:21 +0900
From: Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc: Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>,
	Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>,
	Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, <arch@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: reclaiming v_data of free vnodes
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On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:17:21 -0800 (PST),
  Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> said:

Matthew>     zalloc subsystem cannot shift loads at all and as a consequence we
Matthew>     already have problems with the system running out of KVM.

I have read that the zone allocator of Mach has a gabage collector to
reclaim unused free pages. Was that forgotten to port to FreeBSD?

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Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <tanimura@FreeBSD.org>

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