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In some email I received from Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu> on Tue, 20 May 2003 10:36:12 -0400, wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 02:32:35PM +0000, lou wrote: > > I was wondering (while going through rvm papers), is there a > > possibility to map rvm data onto swap space? [...] > > I did try this once, and had some problems with the fact that RVM > internally had some things aligned on a 512 byte boundary. Either my > change was too intrusive, or those cases might have been resolved when > map_private was introduced. And if the whole page of data was modified > we can even skip the read operation completely. You mean hard coded boundaries ? or the algorithm itself is designed to work with this boundaries? Have you though of trying it now? > No these ideas are exactly what we need to consider as options to make > RVM perform better, which will end up make Coda servers a lot faster and > more responsive. Thanks Jan, that was more that I though I'll get! I'll dig further :) cheers.Received on 2003-05-20 11:09:45