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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:32:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org>
To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: vm balance
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> 
>     FreeBSD implements a very sophisticated VM balancing algorithm.  Nobody's
>     complaining about it so I don't think we need to really change it.  Most
>     of the other UNIXes, including Linux, are actually playing catch-up to
>     FreeBSD's VM design.
> 

I remember hearing/viewing a zero-copy networking patch for 4.2... Anyone
else seen this?  If it's already part of the tree, ignore me :-)


Andrew

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