Subject: Re: mindless boredom, speed and compiling kernels
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
List: port-pmax
Date: 05/20/1998 06:17:24
On Tue, 19 May 1998 10:33:27 -0700 Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Tue, 19 May 1998 10:38:05 -0600
> mhitch@lightning.oscs.montana.edu (Michael L. Hitch) wrote:
>
> > UVM stable? How about when it even runs? [I can boot it, but as soon
> > as it runs out of free memory and the page daemon starts to run, it hangs.
> > The page daemon seems to hang trying to do I/O.]
>
> I suspect these problems are due to bugs in the MIPS pmap, or other
> MIPS-specific code.
>
> Someone really ought to port the NetBSD/alpha pmap to the MIPS... :-)
Let's say someone who hasn't ever really looked at VM were to look into
this, where would be a good place for one to start?
Simon.