Re: 64-bit problem with VM statistics
Re: 64-bit problem with VM statistics
- Subject: Re: 64-bit problem with VM statistics
- From: William Kucharski <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 12:44:58 -0600
On Monday, June 06, 2005, at 06:50AM, Andrew Gallatin <email@hidden> wrote:
>Now, with all my whining and complaining aside, the IOMMU code in
>tiger has gotten *much* better. With tiger, pinning memory is
>nearly as fast as it is on a DAC machine. However, the address space
>is still limited. There's nothing they can do about that.
You don't have to constantly pin/unpin memory if your OS is sophisticated enough
to be able to manage the process better. While Tiger can't currently do this,
Solaris for one can.
Though given today's Intel announcement, our discussion is largely moot at this
point, as the entire Mac universe, and its performance characteristics, is about to
change drastically.
William Kucharski
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