From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 6 16:06:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA27159 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 16:06:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA27142; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 16:06:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA01561; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 10:35:59 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA00882; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 10:35:53 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981107103553.J499@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 10:35:53 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mohit Aron Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: VM internals References: <199811062201.QAA15340@cs.rice.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199811062201.QAA15340@cs.rice.edu>; from Mohit Aron on Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 04:01:36PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 6 November 1998 at 16:01:36 -0600, Mohit Aron wrote: > Hi, > it seems that FreeBSD has added new features to the VM implementation > of 4.4BSD. Is there any place I can get to know about these features (short > of reading the actual code). I'm particulary interested in knowing about > the VM cache and its interactions with other caches in the kernel like the > Filesystem cache and the buffer cache. Thanks, This is a question more suited to -hackers, so I've followed up there. The short answer is "no real documentation is available". The slightly longer one is "so get what's available and make real documentation out of it" :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message