From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 14 15:32:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A09F1561C for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:32:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.2) id WAA62815; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 22:01:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 22:01:01 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Matthew Dillon Cc: John-Mark Gurney , Matthew Jacob , 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> References: <199907131920.MAA80146@apollo.backplane.com> <19990713165520.08447@hydrogen.fircrest.net> <199907140012.RAA82237@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199907140012.RAA82237@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 05:12:30PM -0700 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > 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> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message