Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 22:01:01 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap subsystem overhead (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) Message-ID: <19990714220101.B61883@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <199907140012.RAA82237@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 05:12:30PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907131203350.9543-100000@semuta.feral.com> <199907131920.MAA80146@apollo.backplane.com> <19990713165520.08447@hydrogen.fircrest.net> <199907140012.RAA82237@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 05:12:30PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Ok, I will be more specific.
>
> Under FreeBSD-STABLE *AND* FreeBSD-CURRENT, FreeBSD allocates metadata
> structures that scale to the amount of swap space assigned to the system.
> However, it is not *precisely* the amount of swap space.
<snip>
> Under FreeBSD-stable, just look under "VM pgdata" to see how much
> memory is being wired to support the swap subsystem. This usage covers
> both the fixed and dynamic allocations.
OK, at the risk of reawakening that particular thread -- if people are a
little uneasy about Matt committing to src/*, how about letting him commit
to doc/* instead?
Matt -- some of these messages of yours could probably turn in to great
articles for DaemonNews, or the FreeBSD 'zine, if you were that way
inclined. . .
N
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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