Neil A. Carson wrote:
> 
> Mike Pumford wrote:
> 
> > I've managed without to much difficulty to get by system upgraded to
> > current and move over to UVM. This was fairly painless and has yielded a
> > marginal but useful speed increase.
> 
> Cool! I hope that you notice swapping/paging out is now (I think)
> completely stable, and that mmap()ed file access is up 40% :)
> 
It's certainly very stable I had 80+ processes running last night and the
system was still responsive and usable. the mmap stuff explains why INN seems
to work so much better.

> On the subject, I've got a new pmap/other stuff here which cuts page-in
> system time by 50% and fork/exec time by 50%. Ie shell scripts run
> faster and binaries load quicker. Tks to Chuck and CGD for suggestions,
That sounds very nice since UVM has already speeded this up quite
considerably.

Now all I need to do is update all the extra parts of my system to take
advantage of the extra features. Still its only 20 or 30 packages to build.

Mike