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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!xenlink!fsa.ca!deraadt From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: How different is VM twixt NetBSD and FreeBSD? Date: 26 Dec 93 15:38:23 Organization: little lizard city Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <DERAADT.93Dec26153823@newt.fsa.ca> References: <2fjgs0$5bt@news.service.uci.edu> <JKH.93Dec26154313@whisker.lotus.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: newt.fsa.ca In-reply-to: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie's message of 26 Dec 1993 23:43:13 GMT In article <JKH.93Dec26154313@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: bob@nemesis.ps.uci.edu (bob prohaska ) writes: > How different are the virtual memory system in NetBSD and FreeBSD? Close to identical. i disagree. there are numerous different changes and bug fixes. I think the 4MB decrease is your problem - it's a known thing that gcc2 doesn't live well with 4MB systems in FreeBSD 1.02 (this has undergone significant work in the upcoming FreeBSD 1.1) and here jordan indicates that the freebsd system *is* different. netbsd never had any problems with 4 meg systems (but watch out, things are tight in a 2M system :) so, the correct answer is: the vm systems are based on the same code but have numerous other changes made to them. bugs have been fixed in different ways. -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@fsa.ca