Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:21:32 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: mike@smith.net.au, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File I/O in kernel land (was: Re: 2nd warning: 2.2.6 BETA begins in 10 days!) Message-ID: <199801270651.RAA29592@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:37:51 MDT." <199801270637.AAA04478@detlev.UUCP>
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> My real concern is holding on to lots of dynamically allocated kernel > memory, which is something I can't see getting around without the > screen saver doing file I/O. In Linux, dynamic kernel memory was a > precious resource. Is it not so in FreeBSD? Umm, well wouldn't it be allocated in either case? You either load it in the kernel, or you load it in user land, and then copy it to the kernel.. You still take kernel memory to do it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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