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Date: Wed,  7 Sep 2005 17:59:22 +0200
From: Francisco Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] hacking issue: memory resizing
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Getting bigger should be easy, probably just populating
the allocators, perhaps using extra rmaps for the
extra mem and doing something similar with the allocators on top.

Getting smaller may require assigning pages  first from permanent
rmaps, to avoid relocating vm to the permanent ones.
But, is this part really needed?


On 9/7/05, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
> anybody willing to think about whether dynamic memory resizing would be
> doable in a Plan 9 kernel? This is both get bigger and get smaller.
>=20
> newer machines have hot-plug memory, as do virtual machines.
>=20
> ron
>