Re: Swap memory pages to hard diskand other questions

[Alexei Mandrykine]
> Hello l4ka,
> Does anyone could explain how to choose memory pages for swap out to
> a hard disk?

Some pager decides which pages to swap to disk, unmaps these pages
from the application(s) and hands them to the disk driver.

> Is there any way to detect that page have been accessed by a thread
> since last check?

Use the Unmap() syscall without actually revoking any rights.  You'll
then get the referenced/modified bits of the page(s) you specified.

> Is it possible to use the local IPC between threads that running on
> different CPUs?

No.  Such IPCs will be treated as regular IPCs.

> How to reboot the kernel by an application? Using the key '6' from
> the built-in debugger is not convenient.

Use whatever standard method you like (e.g., send 0xFE on IO port
0x64).

> What is approximately date of the next release of Pistachio (0.5)?

No idea.  The newest changes are in the CVS though.

	eSk