Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:36:50 -0600 | From | Ram Gupta <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream... |
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On 1/23/06, Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com> wrote:
> > The unique feature that Mac OS X VM does have, on the other hand, is > that it keeps profiles of access patterns of applications, and stores > then in files, associated with executables. This allows to quickly > pre-fault necessary pages during application startup (and this makes OSX > boot so fast).
This feature is interesting though I am not sure about the fast boot part of OSX. as at boot time these applications are all started first time. So there were no access pattern as yet. They still have to be demand paged. But yes later accesses may be faster.
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