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KS2007: Memory management

KS2007: Memory management

Posted Sep 14, 2007 2:17 UTC (Fri) by im14u2c (subscriber, #5246)
In reply to: KS2007: Memory management by bronson
Parent article: KS2007: Memory management

FUSE is a bit different story. I don't need to patch Firefox and Emacs to use files in a FUSE filesystem. I do need to patch every large-memory-footprint application to use the proposed memory-pressure message interface.

Interestingly, HURD does its paging in user-space as I recall. Ah yes:

http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/pres-en/abstract/html/node9.html


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KS2007: Memory management

Posted Sep 21, 2007 20:00 UTC (Fri) by ch (guest, #4097) [Link]

The user space pager came from Mach. And may have come from someone else before that.

I may be one of the few people on the planet who wasn't a Mach kernel hacker who has written his own Mach pager. This was an attempt to convince Mach to play better with CMU Common Lisp.

-- Christopher.

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