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#! rnews 1969 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI 2.0.1 swapspace leak fix? Date: 14 Dec 1995 22:37:33 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4aq8vd$s8u@helena.MT.net> References: <4a0hk0$20d@news2.ucsd.edu> <4afu71$ai@picasso.op.net> <4akj9p$5m2@helena.MT.net> <4amvp8$eqs@web.ddp.state.me.us> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <4amvp8$eqs@web.ddp.state.me.us>, David Miller <isdmill@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us> wrote: >Nate Williams (nate@trout.sri.MT.net) wrote: >: In article <4afu71$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? All versions of FreeBSD since 1.1.5 have the re-write, but it was in 2.0 that the merged VM-buffer cache occurred. However, all known bugs in the VM system have been fixed in 2.1, but that doesn't mean there aren't any unknown ones. :) Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth