[70820] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco HFR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexei Roudnev)
Thu May 27 02:48:08 2004
From: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>
To: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@creative.net.au>,
"Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 23:46:09 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I saw such technique in 1986 (approx) year on hardware level - russia
computer Elbrus did it.
: Re: Cisco HFR
>
> On Wed, May 26, 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>
> > Palm has taken an interesting approach to get rid of fragmentation: the
> > OS is allowed to move (some) structures from one physical memory
> > location to another. This only works if the processes that use this
> > memory are written to support this, of course.
>
> Its not a new technique - if you allocate memory "handlers" rather than
> addresses and ask the OS/Memorymanager to lock a handler in memory
> (and give you an address) then the OS/MM is able to move around unlocked
> memory blocks, even on/off disk, at whim.
>
> Win16 memory allocation looked like this, and I'm sure it was lifted
> from something even older.
>
> Its not actually a bad idea in a single-process standalone application.
> It certainly beats using a VM in this instance.
>
> Anyway, back to the network topics.
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
> --
> Adrian Chadd I'm only a fanboy if
> <adrian@creative.net.au> I emailed Wesley Crusher.
>
>
>
