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From: isdmill@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us (David Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI 2.0.1 swapspace leak fix?
Date: 13 Dec 1995 16:42:16 GMT
Organization: Maine State Governtment
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Nate Williams (nate@trout.sri.MT.net) wrote:
: In article <4afu71$ai@picasso.op.net>,
: Bruce Momjian <root@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:
: >David Bauman (david@terra.igcom.net) wrote:
: [ Swap space leak ]

: >I worked with Mike Karels to identify the bug in 1.0.  He has looked
: >into it and talked to the initial Mach developer and the solution is not
: >easy.  It exists in all 386 BSD implementions as far as I know.

: It is fixed in FreeBSD by completely re-writing the VM system from
: scratch.  Along with this a whole hoard of bugs were fixed when the VM
: buffer cache and free memory pool became integrated as well.  I/O
: performance of FreeBSD systems really scream now. :)

What version of FreeBSD? 2.1?

Thanks,
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