Re: current paging strategy

2000-12-04 Thread David Greenman
>On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 12:45:30AM -0800, David Greenman wrote: >> >Interesting. THis needs about two bytes per page for the counter? >> >>Actually, we found that a single byte per page was sufficient. Pages tended >> to be either heavily accessed or rarely accessed. Even in the unusual case

Re: current paging strategy

2000-12-04 Thread Matt Dillon
:On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 11:41:26PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: :> On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:36:44PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :> > what exacly do you mean with critical path, here? :> :> Performance critical. :> Most RISC platforms are optimized for 32 and maybe 64 bit structures. :> E.g.

Re: current paging strategy

2000-12-04 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 11:41:26PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:36:44PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > what exacly do you mean with critical path, here? > > Performance critical. > Most RISC platforms are optimized for 32 and maybe 64 bit structures. > E.g. First g

Re: current paging strategy

2000-12-04 Thread Bernd Walter
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:36:44PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > what exacly do you mean with critical path, here? Performance critical. Most RISC platforms are optimized for 32 and maybe 64 bit structures. E.g. First generation alphas (without BWX) can't even access anything smaller than 32b

Re: current paging strategy

2000-12-04 Thread janb
what exacly do you mean with critical path, here? JAn On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 12:45:30AM -0800, David Greenman wrote: > > >Interesting. THis needs about two bytes per page for the counter? > > > >Actually, we found that a single byte per page was su

Re: current paging strategy

2000-12-04 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 12:45:30AM -0800, David Greenman wrote: > >Interesting. THis needs about two bytes per page for the counter? > >Actually, we found that a single byte per page was sufficient. Pages tended > to be either heavily accessed or rarely accessed. Even in the unusual case > wh

Re: current paging strategy

2000-11-02 Thread David Greenman
>Interesting. THis needs about two bytes per page for the counter? Actually, we found that a single byte per page was sufficient. Pages tended to be either heavily accessed or rarely accessed. Even in the unusual case where all pages are frequently accessed, the page reclaim rate (and thus adj

Re: current paging strategy

2000-11-01 Thread janb
Interesting. THis needs about two bytes per page for the counter? JAn On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, David Greenman wrote: > >What paging strategy does FreeBSD currently use? Is it LRU or some > >approximation to it? How much memory does this strategy take up in its > >current implementation? > >It's

Re: current paging strategy

2000-11-01 Thread David Greenman
>What paging strategy does FreeBSD currently use? Is it LRU or some >approximation to it? How much memory does this strategy take up in its >current implementation? It's probably nothing like anything you've heard of before. It's closest to LOU (least often used). We look at the page's referen

current paging strategy

2000-11-01 Thread janb
What paging strategy does FreeBSD currently use? Is it LRU or some approximation to it? How much memory does this strategy take up in its current implementation? Thank you for any information or links, Jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in th