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Subject: Re: Page Coloring in FreeBSD
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Apan Qasem wrote:
> Does the FreeBSD kernel employ a page coloring algorithm? If so, where 
> can I find information on the heuristics used to color pages?

Page coloring will be removed with the upcoming superpages commit in
December.  See the superpages discussion over the last two weeks on
this mailing list.

-- 
Andre

> I have looked at Matthew Dillon's description at 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~nik/article.html-text
> 
> I was hoping to find something more detailed.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> - Apan
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