From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Feb 13 9:18: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97BC937B503 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:18:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.2/8.9.3) id f1DHHa373170; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:17:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:17:36 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200102131717.f1DHHa373170@earth.backplane.com> To: Barry Lustig Cc: Andrew Gallatin , Bruce Evans , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's changed recently with vmware/linuxemu/file I/O References: <14980.8856.555504.633075@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <14980.48507.507487.690557@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200102100616.f1A6GCf21887@earth.backplane.com> <3A896B57.DF61F266@Lustig.COM> Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org : :Matt Dillon wrote: :> As far as I know vmware is not wiring pages down. :> : :Actually, when vmware starts the number of wired pages, according to :systat, jumps significantly. : :barry That doesn't mean VMWare is wiring them down, it simply means that the pages have been mapped and accessed by the process. Pages referenced by page tables are always wired in the system, but the wiring is temporary. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message