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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news3.near.net!sol.caps.maine.edu!web.ddp.state.me.us!gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us!isdmill From: isdmill@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us (David Miller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI 2.0.1 swapspace leak fix? Date: 13 Dec 1995 16:42:16 GMT Organization: Maine State Governtment Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4amvp8$eqs@web.ddp.state.me.us> References: <4a0hk0$20d@news2.ucsd.edu> <4aa9mf$6pr@picasso.op.net> <4aaehi$eav@moon.igcom.net> <4afu71$ai@picasso.op.net> <4akj9p$5m2@helena.MT.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Nate Williams (nate@trout.sri.MT.net) wrote: : In article <4afu71$ai@picasso.op.net>, : Bruce Momjian <root@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote: : >David Bauman (david@terra.igcom.net) wrote: : [ Swap space leak ] : >I worked with Mike Karels to identify the bug in 1.0. He has looked : >into it and talked to the initial Mach developer and the solution is not : >easy. It exists in all 386 BSD implementions as far as I know. : It is fixed in FreeBSD by completely re-writing the VM system from : scratch. Along with this a whole hoard of bugs were fixed when the VM : buffer cache and free memory pool became integrated as well. I/O : performance of FreeBSD systems really scream now. :) What version of FreeBSD? 2.1? Thanks, -- David Miller Usual disclaimers apply