Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:14:28 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, David Xu <bsddiy@21cn.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mckusick@mckusick.com Subject: Re: vm balance Message-ID: <3AD3E834.AFB6C5BA@elischer.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104101833210.25737-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>
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Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> I'm curious about the other things though ... FreeBSD still seems
> to have the early 90's abstraction layer from Mach and the vnode
> cache doesn't seem to grow and shrink dynamically (which can be a
> big win for systems with lots of metadata activity).
>
> So while it's true that FreeBSD's VM balancing seems to be the
> best one out there, I'm not quite sure about the rest of the VM...
>
Many years ago Kirk was talking about merging the vm objects and the vnodes..
(they tend to come in pairs anyhow)
I still think it might be an idea worth investigating further.
kirk?
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