From 09edd2844b7310a55bb9a786061b67b3c1d6e33e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dillon Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 22:43:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Flesh-out the VM & SWAP release notes. Approved by: jkh --- release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT | 8 ++++++-- release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT index 4eb1b9b134b2..1074cecac5ec 100644 --- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -57,8 +57,12 @@ NFS has been immensely improved with bug fixes and performance tuning Support for more than 32 signals has been added. -The VM system's anonymous storage subsystem (the ``swap pager'') has -been completely revamped. +A large number of bug fixes and performance improvements have been +made to the VM system, including and most especially to mmap() and +related functions. The MAP_NOSYNC option has been added to better support +the use of shared files as an IPC mechanism. The VM system's swapper has +been completely rewritten and performance has been greatly enhanced, +especially when swapping over NFS. An emulator for SVR4 binaries has been added. diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT index a49db2fe8287..22460df2c462 100644 --- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -59,8 +59,12 @@ Support for more than 32 signals has been added. Jail(8) aware sysctl(8) variables have been added for Linux mode. -The VM system's anonymous storage subsystem (the ``swap pager'') has -been completely revamped. +A large number of bug fixes and performance improvements have been +made to the VM system, including and most especially to mmap() and +related functions. The MAP_NOSYNC option has been added to better support +the use of shared files as an IPC mechanism. The VM system's swapper has +been completely rewritten and performance has been greatly enhanced, +especially when swapping over NFS. An emulator for SVR4 binaries has been added.