Re: [patch?] Re: Do ramdisk exec's map direct to buffer cache?

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> And in the end, reality always tends to hit theory hard in the face when
> you least expect it. That's why I'm not holding my breath for some magical
> VM rewrite that will fix all performance problems. No matter _how_ much
> people talk about it..

Thats why the fact these folks are understanding why the FreeBSD VM works
(something not all the freebsd folks seemed to know) and are working from a
known good VM implementation is promising.

2.5 will tell

Alan

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