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Date:      Wed, 14 Jun 2000 03:48:08 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kerneld for FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <20000614104808.21CDC1CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Message from Warner Losh <imp@village.org>  of "Wed, 14 Jun 2000 03:59:40 MDT." <200006140959.DAA20067@harmony.village.org> 

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Warner Losh wrote:

> Sure, there's a monster bug in the kldload/unload right now where that 
> eats wired memory.  That bug should be fixed.

There is?  There is a well-known leak for preload stuff - the pages
are not (yet) reclaimed after unload.  We have the infrastructure to
do that now.  See vm_page_t vm_add_new_page(vm_offset_t pa);
This can be used to reclaim the space consumed by preloaded files.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5



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