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| author | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2008-04-02 17:14:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2008-04-02 17:14:37 +0200 |
| commit | 6a033288e4604e8ed2532573a80fd1114a7e1b68 (patch) | |
| tree | 4d8c9af48d38a00b01cc82e05f2db786680095cf /hurd/ng/resource_management_problems.mdwn | |
| parent | 5b41f2e4140e4d08699b432271c2741b988ee0c5 (diff) | |
Start new page about the *resource management problems*.
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diff --git a/hurd/ng/resource_management_problems.mdwn b/hurd/ng/resource_management_problems.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..856afb1a --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/ng/resource_management_problems.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[microkernel/Mach]] interfaces do not allow for proper resource accounting, +when a server allocates resources on behalf of a client. + +Mach can't do a good job at resource management, as it doesn't have enough +information how resources are used: which data is important and which is +discardable, for example. + +These issues are what Neal Walfield is working on with his new kernel +[[microkernel/viengoos]]. |