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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.
> 
>     Dr.


the big picture is still "mostly" correct. some details have changed.
I believe the page coloring code has been removed.