From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 22 09:37:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA04550 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 09:37:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ultra10 (ultra10.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.4.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA04492 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 09:37:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bf20761@binghamton.edu) Received: from localhost (bf20761@localhost) by ultra10 (SMI-8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA01435; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 12:37:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 12:37:02 -0400 (EDT) From: zhihuizhang X-Sender: bf20761@ultra10 To: Julian Elischer cc: hackers Subject: Re: Questions on inactive page queue In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Julian Elischer wrote: > iare you getting answers to these questions? > > I ask, because usually it used to be john Dyson who would answer them > but now that he has gon to work on different things I want to makwe sure > that your questions are not just getting dropped.. > > julian > > > (1) Why we set a target for the inactive page queue? Who can manipulate > > the pages on the inactive page queue? How to guarantee that a page won't > > move from the inactive queue while paging out? > > David Greenman answered my second question and part of the first one. I guess that one of the hardest part of VM is to understand how pages get moved around different queues. In my case, I want to know who could possibly access the inactive queue at the same time the pageout is going on. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message