Sean McNeil wrote: > Yes, thanks for the clarification. I still am inclined to believe, > though, that the disk driver is what is fragmenting the physical memory > with disk cacheing. It is only a theory, but it sounded plausible. Maybe, but the root cause is not the disk caching. It may be that this subsystem is doing a lot of allocations/deallocations and thus leads to physical address space fragmentation, but the root cause is how we deal with physical address space, and the correct fix is not to add hacks into the disk caching code. I'm insisting on this because I don't want to see people adding hacks here and there to workaround the problem. Even if you get the disk caching code to cause less fragmentation, fragmentation _will_ happen. At best it'll take a bit longer. Cheers, MaximeReceived on Mon Nov 24 2003 - 23:31:45 UTC
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