Subject: Re: netbsd speed on Amiga
To: Simon J DeBoer <sdeboer@uoguelph.ca>
From: Rob Healey <rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org>
List: amiga
Date: 09/26/1995 08:51:26
> > > 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
> > 
> 
> Now that is an idea...hmmm...I didn't like the idea of putting the kernel 
> in chip but I would really like to use that 2M of memory.  Using it that 
> way would certainly assist until I get some more ram.
> 
	EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

	I don't want MY buffer cache in dog slow memory! Please make this
	a compile time option so those of us not in a memory crunch don't
	have to pay dearly for a dog slow buffer cache...

		-Rob