From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 10:54:54 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 10:54:52 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mclean.mail.mindspring.net (mclean.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E967E37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 10:54:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from [209.86.220.179] (user-38ldn5j.dsl.mindspring.com [209.86.220.179]) by mclean.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA22676; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 13:54:18 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 10:57:23 -0800 Subject: Re: About memory management From: Esfandiar Behrouz To: George Reid Cc: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear all, Thank you for your guidance. I was nowhere near asking someone to do the research for me but just a direction to point to. I think I got what I needed for now, and you gave me what you could. James, George, and Tim, thank you for your help. James, you asked a tempting question that if I wanted more information I should ask. So, here is it: My question is just about a high level architecture of the memory, and a hint or two about the paging and segmentation's way of working. Are they close to the any Unix version that Sun provides. Can I just go to Sun's site and find out about these? I have found a book on FreeBSD but it is just about the installation and the use of it. I hope that I am not disturbing anyone by posting these messages. If I am, please give me a hint to stop. Thanks again, Esfandiar > On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Esfandiar Behrouz wrote: > >> Dear Sir or Madame, >> >> I am a student at Cal-State University at Northridge and for a research >> purpose I would like to know about the memory management of FreeBSD >> operating system. >> I would appreciate your help to point me to the right direction where I >> could find any information about the memory management of this operating >> system. > > Buy or borrow "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating > System" by Kirk McKusick et al. It will answer all your questions, bring > about world peace and make your life happier. > > G > > "And then it comes to be that the soothing light > at the end of your tunnel was just a freight > train, comin' your way." > > George Reid * greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message