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24.4. The FreeBSD VM System

Contributed by Matthew Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.ORG>.
6 Feb 1999.

An involved description of FreeBSD's VM internals

24.4.1. Management of physical memory - vm_page_t

24.4.2. The unified buffer cache - vm_object_t

24.4.3. Filesystem I/O - struct buf

24.4.4. Mapping Page Tables - vm_map_t, vm_entry_t

24.4.5. KVM Memory Mapping

24.4.6. Tuning the FreeBSD VM system

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