Re: 2.4 kernel and threads

2001-01-11 Thread Scott Murray
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Joseph Shraibman wrote: > Scott Murray wrote: > > > > Nowadays the buffers are purely used for buffering access to the block > > devices (e.g. disks). Pretty much everything else is now cached in the > > page cache. > > That still doesn't answer my question. If everything i

Re: Objects in a VM

2001-01-11 Thread Joi Ellis
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Vladimir G Ivanovic wrote: > The short answer is no. There is no concept of memory and no concept of > a VM in Java. So you can't go rummaging around memory looking for > things, and (basically) you can't ask the VM to do anything except > execute bytecodes. > > The longer a

Re: 2.4 kernel and threads

2001-01-11 Thread Joseph Shraibman
Scott Murray wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Joseph Shraibman wrote: > > > On a related note, what is the difference between "buffered" and > > "cached" memory? I've noticed that with 2.4.0 there is barely any > > buffered. > > Nowadays the buffers are purely used for buffering access to the b

Re: Objects in a VM

2001-01-11 Thread Vladimir G Ivanovic
"p" == pickard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: p> Is there a way to ask the VM if there is an instance of an Object p> already in the VM and get a copy of that instance? The short answer is no. There is no concept of memory and no concept of a VM in Java. So you can't go rummaging around memory

Re: 2.4 kernel and threads

2001-01-11 Thread Scott Murray
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Joseph Shraibman wrote: > On a related note, what is the difference between "buffered" and > "cached" memory? I've noticed that with 2.4.0 there is barely any > buffered. Nowadays the buffers are purely used for buffering access to the block devices (e.g. disks). Pretty mu

Objects in a VM

2001-01-11 Thread pickard
Hi, Is there a way to ask the VM if there is an instance of an Object already in the VM and get a copy of that instance? Thanks. -p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

RE: 2.4 kernel and threads

2001-01-11 Thread KIRKBRIDE Rob
On the contrary - I've been finding things a little quicker. All the things I've thrown at it build and run without a problem and it definitely seems more efficient in the VM area, I seem to have more spare ram (ie. the free memory after subtracting buffers/cache) but I'm not sure if its just a