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- $Date: 94/09/23 16:23:53 $
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- V1.0: This is the first release
-
- V1.0b: Bug fix: Unit 0 of the paging device was always used instead of the
- given unit.
-
- Bug fix: In case of an error "Reboot" didn't work.
-
- V1.1: Now runs on non-A4000 machines. Sets up its own MMU table,
- if necessary.
-
- Statistics window is font-sensitive now
-
- Dynamic memory allocation policy implemented
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- Now up to 64 MB of virtual memory possible
-
- Now supports both 4K and 8K pages (two program versions)
-
- Paging to a file implemented
-
- Separate program for printing out statistics is available now
- ("VMM40Stat")
-
- Disk access time reduced.
-
- V1.2: Fixed a bug which caused VMM40 to crash the machine when paging to
- a file with its name longer than 20 characters.
-
- V1.1 tried to improve system consistency by disabling allocation of
- VM inside forbidden/disabled sections. This caused programs which
- do an AvailMem (); AllocMem () inside a Forbid/Permit to fail on
- VM allocations (e.g. ADPro). Removed in V1.2.
-
- A small program "ShowPageSize" has been added to determine which
- pagesize is possible on your system.
-
- Maximum VM size has been increased to 128 MB as requested.
-
- A programmer's library has been added for exclusive use of
- virtual memory.
-
- V1.3: FreeMem now marks the freed pages as empty resulting in less paging
- on freeing memory. Unfortunately this breaks tools such as MungWall
- which writes to memory it hasn't allocated.
-
- Fixed a bug which caused strange behaviour during disk IO using
- multiple units sharing the same device. This was probably responsible
- for some strange misbehaviours when rendering text and icons.
-
- The preferences are now changeable while VMM40 is running.
- All parameters except the paging device/file and the page-file size
- will be immediately changed by VMM40.
-
- An advanced section for memory allocation has been added to
- VMM40Prefs. You can now determine the minimum size for VM allocations
- for PUBLIC and non-PUBLIC requests separately.
-
- Reduced VMM's usage of signals on behalf of other tasks. There were
- problems with tasks who had all their signals already allocated.
-
- The Wait function had to be patched in order to avoid problems
- with tasks which have a stack in VM.
-
- You can now exit VMM40 even if there's VM still allocated. In this
- case VMM40 will try to page in all this memory and set up the
- MMU tables accordingly, after which it will quit.
-
- Now writes out modified pages before it needs to resulting
- in better average page-fault service times.
-
- Added a reset handler which inhibits a reset until paging currently
- going on has finished. This prevents the validate procedure after
- reset if you are paging to a file.
-
- Fixed a bug which caused VMM40 to hang when writing the first page
- to DMA-driven harddisks.
-
- Some minor changes and cleanups.
-
- V2.0: VMM runs on the 68030. Consequently VMM40 has been renamed to VMM.
-
- Implemented so-called pseudo-partitions, which look like a file
- but can be accessed with the speed of a partition.
-
- VMM is a commodity in V2.0 using a hotkey to display its GUI.
- Consequently the setup of V2.0 has changed a bit. VMM40 has
- been moved to L:VMM-Handler and VMM40Prefs is now simply called
- VMM. The VMM: assign and the StartVMM program have become obsolete.
-
- Hopefully fixed bugs having to do with paging to DMA devices
- (Patched CachePreDMA and CachePostDMA)
-
- The GUI has changed a bit to make room for some additionally needed
- gadgets.
-
- VMM now patches Workbench's title bar to include the amount of free
- VM. There's a configuration button to enable or disable this feature.
-
- Better exit handling if there's still VM allocated.
-
- Miscellaneous minor changes and bug fixes
-
- V2.0a: Fixed a small but nasty bug I introduced shortly before the release
- of V2.0 when converting from GCC 2.5.7 to GCC 2.6.0. This caused
- VMM to crash when paging to a partition was used for the first time.
- Subsequent uses of partition paging worked OK.
- Also corrected a minor mistake that caused the VMM window not to be
- updated after certain menu function were invoked.
-
- V2.1: AvailMem now returns amount of free public memory if task is not
- permitted to use virtual memory.
-
- Fixed a bug in the startup code which caused VMM to crash if the
- preferences file wasn't found. Now a requester is displayed.
-
- Fixed a bug in the Installer script which caused the default
- configuration file not to be copied.
-
- Implemented a write buffer to write multiple pages to disk.
- Although this involves copying the pages to the buffer it generally
- results in a quite noticeable speed improvement.
-
- Deleted the memory option for paging to the largest available chunk
- since no-one ever seems to use it.
-
- Paging to a file is speeded up significantly by using additional
- buffers for the filesystem. FFS and OFS are very inefficient on
- seeking on long files. VMM installs as many buffers as are needed
- to keep the file list blocks of the paging file in memory.
- Other file systems such as the MSDOS filesystem don't need this.
-
- FreeMem now marks the freed pages as unused instead of invalid.
- Previously subsequent accesses to that range of memory resulted
- in a page-fault without any disk access but the overhead for
- page-fault handling.
-
- Corrected font calculation for statistics window.
-
- Improved error handling.
-
- Fixed a hard to find bug which could cause spurious crashes on
- 68030 systems with a 68882. I underestimated the amount of
- data which is pushed onto the stack during a context switch if
- the FPU is busy.
-
- Added support for external statistics displays. You can now write
- your own (possibly graphical) statistics output for VMM.
-
- Worked around a DOS bug which caused failure to use pseudo-partitions
- on partitions with the same volume and device name.
-