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.