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Date:      Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:17:58 -0500
From:      Linda Messerschmidt <linda.messerschmidt@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Superpages on amd64 FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE
Message-ID:  <237c27100912100717x3f1cda23n2865457e43e226f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091210145052.GX20668@cicely7.cicely.de>
References:  <237c27100911260714x2fcb194ew1e6ce11e764efd08@mail.gmail.com> <200912090907.33433.jhb@freebsd.org> <20091210145052.GX20668@cicely7.cicely.de>

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On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de> wrote:
> I obviously don't have enough clue about this to understand those details.
> Hope that someone can enlighten me.

I think what he is saying is that they are aware that the current
situation is not ideal.

vfork() is suggested as a workaround, definitely not a fix.

The problem is that there is limited effort available to be put into
the VM subsystem and since mostly-working superpages is still *way*
better than no superpages, that limited effort is best spent elsewhere
at present, presumably dealing with other, bigger VM subsystem issues.

Hope I got that right. :)



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