Re: Slow memory support

[Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>]

From: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl>
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@Elf.mj.gts.cz>
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Subject: Re: Slow memory support
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On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Pavel Machek wrote:

> This is what I do. (I only put buffers there, for now). But, what
> about you have 64Meg of normal and 64Meg of slow memory? I doubt
> you'll find 64Meg worth of buffers and page tables.

Hmm, what about putting everything in slow memory, except
for executable code...
Or (with Ben's patch) we could move 'overly active' pages
to fast memory and other pages to slow memory, with a max
amount of pages we could move every second.

Rik.
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