Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 01:00:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, dg@root.com, tlambert@primenet.com, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC Message-ID: <199902110100.SAA26933@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199902102350.PAA01211@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Feb 10, 99 03:50:51 pm
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> > DG's statement is accurate. I removed that very artificial > > restriction over 2 yrs ago. There is no reason to use KVA space > > for data that the kernel never needs to see. Correcting that > > deficit was pretty much on my list as soon as I saw that problem > > when FreeBSD made it an official part of the distribution. > > Hmm, so does that mean that the shared memory pages can be paged out? > And if so, should we be removing the SHMMAXPGS kernel option (since our > current shared memory profile is woefully inadequate for most uses)? Man, is this a cool discussion, or what? 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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