headsup: swap_pager.c

Robert Watson rwatson at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 31 16:09:18 PDT 2003


On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> I am in the process of changing the on-disk layout policy used by the
> swap_pager. 

Do you anticipate any performance changes as a result of this change? 

> Casualties of this will the ability to get swap information out of kvm
> images.  If this, contrary to current evidence is very important to us,
> we can reimplement it later. 

I.e., the ability to do pstat -s -M /var/crash/foo -N /boot/kernel/kernel

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories




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