Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 02:51:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, dyson@iquest.net, pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions/problems with vm_fault() in Stable Message-ID: <199901080251.TAA03819@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199901080106.RAA36238@apollo.backplane.com> from "Matthew Dillon" at Jan 7, 99 05:06:15 pm
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> :The recovery mechanism you outline deals with breaking pages back > :to the system for reuse, but *aggrivates* the fragmentation issue > :to an almost unholy level, which just gets worse if you try and add > :cylinder groups to "grow" the MFS. > > No it doesn't. Explain to me how it aggravates the fragmentation > issue. Remember, we *don't* *care* how 'fragmented' the file data > is in MFS's device namespace. We just care how fragmented it is on > physical media - the swap backing store. The swapper automatically > defragments anything over a page in size. Kernel VM space fragmentation. Try to load a quiccam driver KLD that need to malloccontig. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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