Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 16:55:08 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Bill Maniatty <maniattb@cs.rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reference on FreeBSD VM/Paging Algorithms Wanted Message-ID: <199802050055.QAA18759@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Feb 1998 19:45:10 EST." <199802050042.TAA07323@cs.rpi.edu>
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>I am teaching an undergraduate operating systems course this semester and >am going into paging algorithms next week. I was wondering if there is a >pointer to a (brief) description of the algorithms and internals of the >FreeBSD virtual memory management/paging system. It would be nice to show >the students a high quality paging real world example (give them a sense of >what the big boys can do :-)). > >I realize it is probably well documented, I just hope that not all the >documentation is in C :-). Oh my goodness. Well, the paging algorithms have been evolving over a rather long period of time and no formal documentation has yet been written. Either John Dyson <dyson@freebsd> or myself should be able to answer any questions regarding it, however. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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