From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 29 17:46:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19131 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:46:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19104 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:45:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01618; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 19:45:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199804300045.TAA01618@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Warning, but good VM news In-Reply-To: <19980429073329.15469@mcs.net> from Karl Denninger at "Apr 29, 98 07:33:29 am" To: karl@Mcs.Net (Karl Denninger) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 19:45:24 -0500 (EST) Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 11:04:00PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > > I am about to commit some VM improvements that should get > > rid of some of the pseudo-memory leaks that some people have > > been seeing. I was spurred on by Chuck Cranor from NetBSD, > > regarding some criticisms of the MACH VM code. The problems > > aren't impossible to solve, and these changes to be committed > > in about 1Hr, should mitigate most of them. > > > > Note that I would ask that you torture your -current system(s) > > before deploying after the changes. Please walk carefully, > > but the new code should really cause many problems. It is not > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > in its (:-)) final form yet, but should be functional. > > > > John > > Aieeeeeee! :) > > I assume that's a typo, but its darn funny! :-) > No, I actually believe it :-). I have had the ideas embodied in the fixes around for quite a while, but everytime I touch the VM code, I break it. I did mean to say shouldn't really or equivalent. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message