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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!theos.com!riscan.riscan.com!van.istar!ott.istar!istar.net!winternet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Malloc in FreeBSD (Was: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD) Date: 4 Jun 1996 20:43:09 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4p274t$n21@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <3194622D.41C67EA6@ami-chan.res.cmu.edu> <31A52667.794BDF32@zeus.co.uk> <4o3ftc$4rc@zot.io.org> <31A5A8F6.15FB7483@zeus.co.uk> <31A5D0A8.59E2B600@zeus.co.uk> <DrxB6M.Iyn@kithrup.com> <31AC940B.236F@mts.se> <4ot10r$sv@uriah.heep.sax.de> <31B39F71.1E24@mts.se> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se> wrote: > > FreeBSD does only know about lazy swap at all. Perhaps somebody > > should teach it eager swap as well. > > Maybe it will cange in any future releases who comes after 2.1 (or 2.2)? I don't know of any plans. This is not to say that we would reject your patches to make this an option. :-) > Does BSDI also do this lazy allocation? To the best of my knowledge, yes. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)