From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 8 12:45:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17791 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 12:45:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tim.xenologics.com (tim.xenologics.com [194.77.5.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17692 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 12:44:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tim.xenologics.com (8.8.5/8.8.8) with UUCP id VAA09862; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 21:41:55 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by semyam.dinoco.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA25030; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 21:28:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Message-Id: <199807081928.VAA25030@semyam.dinoco.de> Cc: Joel Ray Holveck To: seggers@semyam.dinoco.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Someone working on swapoff? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Jul 1998 11:07:45 CDT." <199807081607.LAA02079@detlev.UUCP> Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 21:28:13 +0200 From: Stefan Eggers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > How about /usr/share/doc/papers/newvm.ascii.gz? > > The daemon book and newvm are good for 4.4BSD, but FreeBSD uses a > different system based on the Mach paging internals. Any papers on > Mach should suffice. I looked for technical reports on this matter from CMU but have not found one dealing with VM, yet. :-( But maybe I find something in the next few weeks. > Besides that, unless John's written a paper on it and hasn't told us, > the best I can suggest there is to UTSL. (I may be able to dig up a That's exactly the method I am using at present and which I think isn't that bad. But a map of the terrain would of course make the task a little bit easier. ;-) I started to read it a bit today and must say it looks pretty under- standable for such a beast. I don't expect it to be too hard. The hardest part will be to get FreeBSD-current on a 386/33 (the machine I intend to use for testing) with the least financial effort. :-) Stefan. -- Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. 51109 Koeln Federal Republic of Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message