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Subject: Re: VM architecture
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On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Dr. Baud wrote:

>    In the interest of understanding the VM system (before actually reading 
> code) in the latest distros of FreeBSD, are the following links considered 
> reasonably useful reads?
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/vm.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/
>
>    Any suggestions as to what resource(s) to peruse regarding aforementioned 
> subject is much appreciated.

Alan Cox's work on superpages is one of the more notable changes to the 
FreeBSD VM system over the last few years.  The OSDI paper on that can be 
found here:

   http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi02/tech/navarro.html

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge