From 6eb6d5314e303379debbef82921a215ef2b00d98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Fredrik Hammar Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:19:06 +0100 Subject: Fix typos and spelling on GSoC pages --- community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning.mdwn | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning.mdwn') diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning.mdwn index 9e802188..ecc5f9f4 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning.mdwn @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Hurd/[[microkernel/Mach]] presently make very bad use of the available physical system. Some of the problems are inherent to the system design (the kernel can't distinguish between important application data and discardable disk buffers for example), and can't be fixed without fundamental changes. Other -problems however are an ordinary lack of optimisation, like extremely crude +problems however are an ordinary lack of optimization, like extremely crude heuristics when to start paging. (See for example.) Many parameters are based on assumptions from a time when typical machines had like 16 MiB of RAM, or simply have been set to @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ arbitrary values and never tuned for actual use. The goal of this project is to bring the virtual memory management in Hurd/Mach closer to that of modern mainstream kernels (Linux, FreeBSD), by comparing the implementation to other systems, implementing any worthwhile improvements, and -general optimisation/tuning. It requires very good understanding of the Mach +general optimization/tuning. It requires very good understanding of the Mach VM, and virtual memory in general. This project is related to [[!GNU_Savannah_task 5489]]. -- cgit v1.2.3