JFYI: VirtualBox stable/unstable setteings (3.0.51.r22902)

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Michael Butler
<imb at protected-networks.net>wrote:

> On 12/23/09 17:56, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> Yes, there is an i386-specific race condition that I understand but
>> haven't
>> fixed.  It's typically triggered by the page daemon calling uma_reclaim().
>> It affects all versions from 7.2 to HEAD.
>>
>
> Ah - that's a shame because it does offer a noticeable "speed-up" on this
> device with large executables,
>
>

I just wanted to let you (and everyone else) know that this race condition
with superpage promotion on i386 has been addressed in FreeBSD 7.x, 8.x, and
HEAD.  At this time, I don't know of any other bugs affecting superpage
usage on i386.

Regards,
Alan