Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:14:32 -0800 (PST) From: John Dyson <dyson> To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Questions for current hackers.. Message-ID: <199603131814.KAA14159@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960313083735.20556A-100000@covina.lightside.com> from "Jake Hamby" at Mar 13, 96 08:41:59 am
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> > 2) Over the last several months, various changes have been made to the VM > code that have, at times, left -current in a rather unstable state (Sig > 11's and whatnot). A number of people experienced problems just recently, > with the 3/3 SNAP and kernels built around this time. What exactly is the > reasoning behind all of these VM changes, are they to boost performance, > reduce swap utilization, or what? > Performance boost, code cleanup, decrease memory usage under certain circumstances (forks), etc... Remember, -current != -stable :-). The changes were tested for a few weeks, and it is impossible to simulate all usages of the system. There are more changes going in after the next SNAP. John
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