Re: headsup: swap_pager.c

From: M. Warner Losh (imp_at_bsdimp.com)
Date: 08/01/03

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To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk

    In message: <7379.1059732120@critter.freebsd.dk>
                "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
    : Quite frankly, given the sizes of RAM we see these days, I think that
    : paging optimizations may be largely a thing of the past.

    FreeBSD is being deployed still on machines with 32M or 64M of RAM.
    However, these systems tend not to have swap at all, so only the
    preemptive text page reclaimation stuff would be relevant to that.

    Warner
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