Subject: Re: netbsd speed on Amiga
To: Simon J DeBoer <sdeboer@uoguelph.ca>
From: Eduardo E. Horvath eeh@btr.com <eeh@btr.btr.com>
List: amiga
Date: 09/25/1995 16:07:48
On Mon, 25 Sep 1995, Simon J DeBoer wrote:

> How hard would it be to change this for those people in a memory poor 
> environment?  To put the kernel into chip and use fast for the main 
> memory in use for everything else.

That would be a rather silly thing to do.  You would end up with your 
most executed code locked into the slowest memory.  Something that might 
be worth considering is using any unused chip RAM for the buffer cache.  
If the chip RAM allocator could then reclaim the pages as needed.

Eduardo