From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 19 8:12:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from not.demophon.com (vpn.iscape.fi [195.170.146.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91D8E14FF2 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:12:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@not.demophon.com) Received: (from will@localhost) by not.demophon.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) id SAA62422; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:11:49 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from will) To: jonas.bulow@parallelconsulting.com (Jonas Bulow) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UVM vs FreeBSD VM system References: <3885CDCD.E033801@parallelconsulting.com> From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen Date: 19 Jan 2000 18:11:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: jonas.bulow@parallelconsulting.com's message of "19 Jan 2000 16:46:52 +0200" Message-ID: <86vh4qghx6.fsf@not.demophon.com> Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jonas.bulow@parallelconsulting.com (Jonas Bulow) writes: > How does the UVM system compare to the VM system in FreeBSD? Are there > any benchmark tests or research results in this area? The dissertation paper on UVM describes the differences (and is reasonably objective). It can be found on the UVM pages (http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/chuck/tech/uvm/). I'm not aware of any benchmarks, but would expect UVM to be somewhat slower doing most things (not by design, just the current implementation). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message