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