Does the FreeBSD VM system do O(1) or O(N) searches for gaps in a processes virtual memory space?
(It may not seem obvious why my question is related to the discussion below, but trust me, it is...) On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Rohit Grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I apologize for not checking the FAQs before asking the question. > > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/advanced.html#CHANGE-KERNEL-ADDRESS-SPACE > > > > How large can we make the KVA? > > This was recently discussed in the thread ``FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE not > easily scalable to large servers ... ?'' on the stable and current > lists; you'll probably find the information you want in the archives. > The short answer is that KVA + UVA <= 4 GB on x86. So you could raise > KVA to 3 GB, for instance, but then any given user process would only > be able to address 1 GB of virtual memory. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
