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Former schoolteacher Benjamin Bates first came to Lewiston, Maine in 1847. Upon arrival he noticed tremendous potential in the currents of the Androscoggin River: with construction of canals to control the hydropower, Bates knew he would be able to run a successful and efficient mill. At this time 98% of the cloth made in America was made in the home by families for their own use, but the Industrial Revolution and contributors to it (such as Benjamin Bates) would change the face of textile production forever.
Machinery and construction supplies arrived in Lewiston only one year after the city's first railroad was introduced, and the mills were built quickly. The ten years following the opening of the Bates Mills in Lewiston are marked as one of the most productive and prosperous times in Lewiston history. News journalists stayed busy writing articles about the constructions and additions of the new mills in the area, each mill with double the capacity than the one built before it. Bates would add new machinery as soon as help could be attained, so laborers traveled from hundreds of miles away to work in these fantastic mills. By 1857 the Bates Mill in Lewiston ran 36,000 hands, employed 1,000 hands, and annually turned out 5.7 million yards of the best quality of cotton goods. Even after winning multiple achievements and awards for his textiles, including "Best Pantaloon Stuffs" and "Best Plain and Fancy Cotton Fabrics", Bates wanted more. Accordingly, in 1858 the Bates Manufacturing Company wove the first Bates bedspread.
Upon the Civil War most New England mills started selling their cotton stock, assuming that the war would only last 90 days. Instead, Benjamin Bates bought as much cotton as he could find (despite the skyrocketing prices) and became the main supplier of Union textiles during the 4 year war. Even afterward, despite post-war depression, the Bates Mills in Lewiston prospered and continued to expand. It was at this time that the French-Canadian population began to immigrate to Lewiston for work; even today the city of Lewiston continues to have a great French-Canadian influence (and many of the current mill workers have French-Canadian ancestors that began their American lives as mill workers). While steadily bringing business into Lewiston, Bates also substantially contributed to what was then called the Maine State Seminary. Over his lifetime he donated more than $100,000 to the Lewiston university, and it was because of his generosity that in 1863 the university president and founder Orel B. Cheney renamed the institution Bates College.
Throughout the Civil War and both World Wars the Bates Manufacturing Company continued to weave its fine quality cloths, with bedspreads being the most rendered for the past 50 years. The Bates Manufacturing company opened its doors when America was a farming community of only 23 million people and 30 states. Now the weaving company is called Maine Heritage Weavers, a new company birthed in 2001 by former Bates Mill employees. The Bates Mill Store originally opened in the 1950′s to offer discounted second quality bedspreads to Bates Mill employees, but now we sell elegant first quality Bates bedspreads woven by Maine Heritage Weavers the same way that Benjamin Bates designed.
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This edition features a demonstrative increase of hundreds of pages from the 2010 edition as new companies have entered the diagnostic market and IT companies make their mark on diagnostics. In eight best-selling editions, Shara Rosen has detailed the market for in vitro diagnostic (IVD) testing, throughout the world, in one complete volume. The report, The Worldwide Market for In Vitro Diagnostic Tests, is a testament to the Kalorama methodology. Real industry knowledge combined with an exhaustive review of the medical, business, and company literature. Market numbers for business planning matched with a discovery of the trends that are impacting the industry. A realistic forecast five years into the future for companies already participating in or considering entry into this growing industry. Comprehensive Coverage of a High Interest Industry This year, Kalorama has published its eighth edition of this informative volume based on the market events of 2011. The report is over 1400 pages, reflecting the dramatic change in IVD. New entrants, net technologies have entered the stage and all important events are cataloged in this report. The idea behind Kalorama's unique report is that the entire market can be captured in one volume and business planners avoid multiple purchases. Published every two years, this volume includes coverage of the most important aspects of all of the major segments of clinical lab testing, including:
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OverviewTwo senior scientists from Columbia University have proposed a theory that a massive transfer of water occurred about 5600 BCE - over seven and a half millennia ago. They wrote: "Ten cubic miles of water poured through each day, two hundred times what flows over Niagara Falls." "The Bosporus flume roared and surged at full spate for at least three hundred days." 60,000 square miles of land were inundated. 1 The Black Sea shoreline significantly expanded to the north and east. The lake's its water level was raised many hundreds of feet. It changed from a fresh-water landlocked lake into a salt water lake connected to the world's oceans. They have drawn on the findings of experts in agriculture, archaeology, genetics, geology, language, development of textiles and pottery, etc. They postulate that this deluge had catastrophic effects on the people living on the shore of the Black Sea. It triggered mass migrations across Europe and into the Near East, Middle East and Egypt. It may have been the source of many flood stories in the area. Some researchers believe that the story of Noah's flood in the Biblical book of Genesis is a myth that had its origin in this cataclysmic event. A book by William Ryan and Walter Pitman describes one of the most fascinating scientific puzzles of recent years. We found it far more riveting than any detective novel. 1 Religious significanceAbout 300 cultures around the world have stories of a massive flood. 2 In Judeo-Christian countries, the most famous is the story of Noah's Flood, as recorded in the Bible: Genesis, chapters 6 to 8. The story of the worldwide flood of Noah has fueled conflicts between geologists and Christians since the early 19th century - long before Darwin was born.
Sponsored link: What happened to the Black Sea?The theory presented by Ryan & Pitman is partly based on generally agreed scientific findings, and partly on their observations at the Black Sea. The dates will not make much sense to conservative Christians and others who believe in "creation science." This is the belief that God created the earth and the rest of the universe less than 10,000 years ago. We will use the dates used by the 95% of scientists who believe in an "old earth" -- one which coalesced about 4.5 billion years ago.
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The next logical step will be to search for the remains of villages and sunken boats from the 6th millennium BCE. 4,5 Human consequences of the delugeThe fields in all the villages which surrounded the lake would have been quickly inundated. Most or all of the fish life in the lake would die as the salt level became intolerable to the fresh water species. The salinity would eventually be high enough to support salt-water species. The people would have had to scatter immediately in all directions in order to survive. Ryan and Pitman suggest that groups of immigrants migrated into islands in the Aegean, and up the Dniester, Dnieper, Danube, Don and Volga rivers. This would have led them into much of Europe, the Balkans, and what is now Russia. Other groups migrated to areas of what is now Turkey, Egypt, the Levant (now Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine), northern Mesopotamia (now Iraq) and Anatolia (now Turkey). Within a few years, the lake level reached equilibrium, at more-or-less its present value. Did the Noachian flood story originate in the Black Seas event?As noted above, conservative Christians generally believe that God prevented the authors of Genesis from making any errors in writing. They believe that the Noachian flood must have happened precisely as the Bible says. The story was derived from the events of a world-wide flood, circa 2350 BCE. It was not based on a local flood of the Black Sea in the 6th millennium BCE. To many conservative Christians, the 6th millennium BCE did not exist, since they believe that the world was created circa 4004 BCE. Many mainline Christians, liberal Christians, secularists and others are open to the theory that the Genesis flood story was not based on an actual, world-wide flood. Archaeologists have found two truly ancient versions of the flood story which were written down "over two millennia after the [Black Sea] event:"
Linguists are able to trace elements of languages back before they were first written down. William Ryan and Walter Pitman claim that "It is possible through linguistics to tie these people together, with speakers of other languages at about the time of the flood and to the region of the Black Sea." 6 The Babylonian flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh is generally regarded as having been derived from these earlier flood stories. The Epic dates back to the third millennium BCE. The Epic, in turn, appears to be a main source of the flood stories in Genesis. According to the Documentary Hypothesis, there were originally two stories written in Hebrew by two unknown authors, called "J" and "P." These were interleaved into the single Genesis account by a redactor (editor) called "R." There are about 20 points of similarity between the Bible story and the flood story in the Epic of Gilgamesh. 5 The Hebrew version is a monotheistic re-writing of the original Babylonian polytheistic text. There were other flood stories in ancient times. For example "The Greeks had the story of Deucalion, son of Titan Prometheus, who was king of Phthia during the time Zeus destroyed the human race in his own anger-inspired deluge. [Zeus']... flood did the job in only nine days. Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha were the lone survivors, thanks to a warning by Prometheus. Deucalion constructed a boat, which, after the inundation, came to rest on the top of Mt. Parnassus." 7 Subsequent developments:
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JIM LEHRER: Two legal setbacks for the administration from two separate court of appeal. Terror suspect Jose Padilla cannot be detained as an enemy combatant, and the Guantanamo prisoners should have access to lawyers and the American court system.
We look at these two cases now with two law professors who have been following them closely. John Yoo of Boalt Hall Law School at the University of California, Berkeley. He's a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Bush Administration, and David Cole of Georgetown University Law Center and the Center for Constitutional Rights. He's the author of "Enemy Alien: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedom in the War on Terrorism."
JIM LEHRER: Mr. Cole let's take the decisions one at a time. The Padilla case the court in New York said as an American citizen Jose Padilla he is "entitled to constitutional protection extended to other citizens." Did the court get it right?
DAVID COLE: Absolutely. What they said is that the president acting alone doesn't have the authority to simply go out and label any American citizen picked up anywhere in the United States, an enemy combatant or as President Bush puts it a bad guy and then put that person into indefinite, incommunicado military custody -- that at a minimum he has for to act with congressional statutory authority and they pointed in particular to a statute that Congress enacted in 1971 that said American citizens may not be imprisoned or detained except pursuant to an act of Congress, and there is no act of Congress here. The president acted entirely unilateral, and was essentially saying I'm above the law, I don't have to have congressional authority; I don't have to have review in the courts.
JIM LEHRER: Professor Yoo, do you see it differently?
JOHN YOO: Yeah. I think what happened here was that the 2nd Circuit is trying to turn the clock back to Sept. 10 and the reason I say that is the way the court looked at the case and the war on terrorism generally is that we should handle it according to the criminal justice system and not according to what the Bush administration has tried to treat the war on terrorism as, as a war.
And so, for example, in this case they say al-Qaida operatives in the United States are to be treated as criminal defendants, not as enemy combatants.
JIM LEHRER: If they're American citizens.
JOHN YOO: I think it's true if American citizens, but I don't see any reason in the judicial decision why it would be limited to American citizens and the other thing is there is no reason to think al-Qaida would only hire non-U.S. Citizens as their operatives in fact, they're moving in the other direction, it seems.
JIM LEHRER: And so you would say -- you would disagree with the court and David Cole -- you say the president already has -- I just said in the in the News Summary -- but Padilla was arrested at O'Hare Airport in Chicago 18 months ago on charges or on suspicion that he was going to -- he was involved in plans to detonate what's called a dirty bomb, radioactive bomb, et cetera. That, in your opinion, would be enough to hold him no matter what?
JOHN YOO: Right. I think there is two grounds. I think that's exactly right; I do disagree with David, I think the 2nd Circuit got it wrong -- two reasons: one, the president has commander in chief authority to protect the country against attacks. And if Padilla's coming to the United States to blow up a radioactive nuclear device, his commander in chief authority allows him to protect the country by detaining people who threaten to harm the country.
JIM LEHRER: What about that?
DAVID COLE: Well, first of all, the court didn't say the president can never detain a person under those circumstances. What it said is that he has to -- he can't do it acting alone where Congress has said that he can't do it. In other words, if he were to act pursuant to statutory authorization from Congress, if Congress had said, under these circumstances in wartime when you meet these conditions you can hold people as enemy combatants, then that would be a very different question. But Congress said exactly the opposite, in light of a belated recognition of what went wrong during World War II, Congress in 1971 said American citizens shall not be imprisoned or detained except pursuant to an act of Congress. There is no act of Congress here to authorize this.
JIM LEHRER: But what about Professor Yoo's point that the potential act of terrorism -- doesn't matter whether it's a U.S. citizen or whatever -- the president has not only the right but the responsibility to protect American citizens from these kinds after attacks?
DAVID COLE: The point is that the president is not above and beyond the law, even in wartime. The Supreme Court during the Korean War said that the president could not act unilaterally to seize a steel mill, to seize property. It's a much more extreme measure to go out and pick up a U.S. citizen at O'Hare Airport and simply lock him up incommunicado without giving him any kind of a hearing, any kind of charges, any kind of access to a lawyer. And yet the administration was taking the position that we can do that even when Congress has said we can't without providing this person with any access to a jury. This is essentially an assertion that the law doesn't apply to the president when we call it a war.
JIM LEHRER: What about the court said, well, he can be turned over to civilian authorities and tried like anybody else. What's wrong with that?
JOHN YOO: I think that goes again to the fundamental problem with the way the 2nd Circuit looked at the case, which was, we're going to treat terrorism as a crime; we're going to use all the usual rules which we use to supervise the police, to supervise the war on terrorism. And I think the reason why it's important that we treat it as a war is intelligence and information. Information is the primary commodity in this conflict. It's more important than bombs, it's more important than missiles or guns. The reason we want to hold someone like Jose Padilla as an enemy combatant is so that you can interrogate him and get information from him about future attacks that are going to occur and who his contacts were in the country, how he was going to build the bomb, where he was going to get the fissionable material from. You can't do that the in the normal criminal justice system. You get Miranda, lawyers and your lawyers will tell you immediately not talk to the government.
JIM LEHRER: Now, speaking of lawyers, let's go to the second case, Guantanamo, the appeals panel in San Francisco said the Guantanamo detainees, most of whom were picked up or captured in Afghanistan are entitled to access, to lawyers and access to the American judicial system. I assume you don't agree with that either?
JOHN YOO: No. And I hate to say it -- I think that this decision is legally irrelevant because the Supreme Court has already decided to hear this issue, how far federal courts in their jurisdiction over habeas corpus actually extend to Guantanamo Bay. And people at the time were surprised that the court granted cert in that case because the D.C. Circuit upheld the government's power. Now it looks like the court has pressure.
JIM LEHRER: Another case...
JOHN YOO: Another case in the Washington, D.C. federal court where that court held that the federal courts don't have jurisdiction over Guantanamo Bay. And so the court in a way was pressured because maybe they foresaw that there would be another court like the 9th Circuit, which has a habit of acting sort of outside the legal mainstream -- at times would go the other direction -- and so they're going to decide this case, not the 9th Circuit.
JIM LEHRER: How do you see the Guantanamo situation?
DAVID COLE: Well, I think, you know, the entity that's outside of the legal mainstream here is the Bush administration. It's the same principle really in both cases. In the Padilla case and the 9th Circuit Guantanamo case -- the administration saying we can act without legal limitation and in the Guantanamo case they say, these people who we have similarly labeled as enemy combatants have similarly been provided with no hearing whatsoever no, no process, no trial -- we can label them and we deny them any access to any court anywhere in the world to challenge the legality of their detention. That's essentially saying we're above the law.
What I think both the 2nd Circuit and the 9th Circuit said was this is a system of checks and balances; this is a system where we don't give the president unilateral authority where we rely on checks through congressional legislation and checks through judicial review to make sure that the administration acts within the law and nowhere is that more important than when the administration is locking up a human being, depriving a human being of liberty. That is a very significant government power. It's got to be subject to law. The administration basically was taking a position in both cases that it's not subject to law.
JIM LEHRER: Professor Yoo, is that it?
JOHN YOO: I think again this is a good example of how people sometimes think about terrorism as if it were Sept. 10. It's a war. Enemy combatants in a war do not get lawyers; they do not get trials; they can be held in prisoner of war camps until the end of a conflict. That's essentially what's happening in Guantanamo Bay and the government is treating members of the al-Qaida and Taliban as prisoners in an armed conflict.
All of the liberties that David just listed are great luxuries for a domestic system to have when it is treating criminal suspects within its own borders. But when you have an attack from a foreign source, someone is trying to destroy you -- that's a war, and the rules of war -- there is a legal system. It's not that they're -- the government is acting without bounds; there's a legal system called the laws of war that decide how you treat enemy combatants and that's what's happening in Guantanamo Bay.
JIM LEHRER: You draw no distinction between enemy combatants in the time of war and civilians in a civilian judicial process?
DAVID COLE: Absolutely, and I don't think either case eliminates that distinction. I think what the 2nd Circuit said was yes enemy combatant detentions may well be justified but if you're dealing with U.S. citizens on U.S. soil, you've got to have some congressional authority and here what you have is congressional negation of authority based on the wrongs that happened during World War II.
JIM LEHRER: But Guantanamo, these are not American citizens who were arrested; in fact, most of them are arrested on a battlefield end quote in Afghanistan.
DAVID COLE: Right. But the question of course is are they enemy combatants or not, and the court didn't say you can't -- in the 9th Circuit they didn't say you can't hold them if they're enemy combatants. They said they're entitled to some process and they....
JIM LEHRER: To determine that you mean.
DAVID COLE: Exactly -- because the whole question is who are these people -- some of these people allegedly were taxi drivers who were picked up to get a bounty from the military by the Northern Alliance and in fact, were not al-Qaida or Taliban.
But we have never provided even the most basic process required by the rules of war, required by the Geneva Conventions which acknowledge the authority to lock up the people who are fighting for enemy but provide that where there's any doubt you have got to provide a hearing; we have never given that hearing.
JIM LEHRER: What would be the problem in forcing the government to at least prove -- not prove -- at least offer some evidence that these people were in fact, enemy combatants?
JOHN YOO: Well, first this is not the kind of rules that apply in war; it would be a special exception. So for example, in Iraq the United States captured hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war. They don't have lawyers; they don't get to go to federal court and make a claim; they can't hire Johnny Cochran or David Cole, run to federal court and say, I'm not really an Iraqi POW -- free me, I want the government to show the reason why they thought I was an enemy prisoner. That's just not the way laws of war work.
The second thing is you have David Cole as your lawyer; he's going to say don't say anything to the government. That totally defeats the purpose of interrogating enemy combatants to try to get information about the future.
Let me just say -- the congressional authorization issue, it's a hard issue. I mean, the Congress did pass an authorization immediately after Sept. 11, authorizing the use of force against al-Qaida and anyone else involved with the Sept. 11 attacks. So the question is: is that enough to give you detention authority or not? I think the 2nd Circuit actually reached a weird result because it would say that the government can use force -- Congress authorized you to use force against people -- but they didn't authorize you to detain those same people.
JIM LEHRER: All right. Each of you quickly - this is now -- both of these cases one way or another are going to end up being resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court; based on the your reading of the present day court how do you think they're going to come down on the issues, taking this -- not necessarily these particular cases but the issues raised by these cases?
DAVID COLE: Well, I have said it's not a good idea to predict ever since Bush versus Gore, but I think that the Guantanamo case presents a strong claim that at a minimum you have got to decide whether the people are enemy combatants before you bar them from any judicial review whatsoever and with respect to Padilla, this is the broadest assertion of unilateral executive authority that I think we have seen in our lifetimes. I fully expect the court to hold back that kind of assertion of power.
JOHN YOO: Well, after Bush Versus Gore, I fell in love predicting what the Supreme Court is going to do. So let me give it a try. I think on Guantanamo Bay they will uphold the D.C. Circuit and say the treatment of enemy combatants outside the territory of the United States is just something federal courts aren't going to get involved in.
The Padilla case is really much harder and they will review the case. I think the real question there is whether they're going to allow access to an attorney, so they won't go as far as the 2nd Circuit but they could compromise in between.
JIM LEHRER: Is this important, these cases today, is this decision an important decision?
DAVID COLE: I think they're important because they underscore the importance of checks and balances even during war time.
JOHN YOO: It's important because it's a complete rejection of the administration's theory that the war on terrorism is a war.
JIM LEHRER: Thank you, both, very much.
JOHN YOO: Thank you.
DAVID COLE: Thank you.


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Daniel Bryan: 'I Know I'm Not What WWE Usually Looks For'
By Ryan Clark | April 01, 2010 |
Bryan, who was trained by Shawn Michaels' Texas Wrestling Academy school a decade ago, says he spoke with his former teacher following WrestleMania. "I was able to speak with him briefly Sunday night, and he told me that it was my time now and if I ever needed anything to just let him know. Words cannot express my gratitude for the great training he gave me, and for his support. I'm sure he will miss wrestling, but wrestling will miss him even more."
Bryan, who broke into wrestling through Shawn Michaels's TWA training school ten years ago, also talked about not being liked by "some backstage" and continued to play up the TV storyline where his perceived lack of charisma and size is an issue.
"I know I'm not what WWE usually looks for in a Superstar. It's quite obvious by Michael Cole's commentary that he doesn't think I have what it takes and I know there are even more people in the back who think the same thing. They doubt my mic skills and they doubt whether the WWE Universe can get behind someone who looks as plain as I do...but none of them doubt my in ring ability," Bryan said.
"I may not be what the WWE looks for when they're recruiting, but most of the people they recruit don't have the passion for this business that people like Shawn Michaels have. I do, and I've proven it over the last ten years. I will outwork, outsmart and outclass 99.9% of the muscleheads and pretty boys that they think have the right 'look.'"


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Processed meat is so strongly linked with colorectal cancer that no one should ever eat it, according toa new report by the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research.
The report—the most comprehensive ever conducted on colorectal cancer risk—found that this type of cancer is extremely preventable. How do you slash your risk? Say goodbye to processed meats—this includes bacon and hot dogs but also deli meats—and hello to fruits and vegetables.
The findings reaffirm the results of a landmark 2007 report by the same organizations showing "convincing" evidence that red and processed meat increased colorectal cancer risk. Findings from 10 new cohort studies were added to the 14 studies included in the 2007 report. The new report also upgrades fiber's protective effects from "probable" to "convincing."
The evidence provided in the 2007 report was already strong enough that we should have immediately removed all processed meats from federal nutrition programs. But the government balked at PCRM's appeal to make this happen. With this new evidence, there is no excuse for continuing to feed children processed meats.
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the world. Forty-five percent of all colorectal cancer cases could be prevented if we ate more plant foods and less meat, drank less alcohol, exercised more, and maintained a healthy weight, according to the report's authors. That's more than 64,000 cases each year just in the United States.
If we have conclusive, convincing evidence that certain foods significantly increase the risk of developing this deadly disease, we must do all we can to make the public aware of the connection. And it should go without saying that children should never again find a hot dog or a pepperoni pizza in the school lunch line.
World Cancer Research Fund / American Institute for Cancer Research. Continuous Update Project Interim Report Summary. Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Colorectal Cancer. 2011.
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Following are excerpts from the opening remarks today by Senators Fred Thompson, Republican of Tennessee, and John Glenn, Democrat of Ohio, at the first day of hearings of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on campaign finance activities in the 1996 elections, with remarks from other committee members:
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I would like to turn our attention to one of the most troublesome areas of this investigation. I speak of allegations concerning a plan hatched during the last election cycle by the Chinese Government and designed to pour illegal money into American political campaigns. The plan had a goal: to buy access and influence in furtherance of Chinese Government interests.
A story about the existence of a Chinese plan to subvert our election process is intertwined with the state of America's relation with China and Taiwan in recent years.
In May of 1995, Taiwanese President Li Teng-Hui was granted a visa to visit the United States. The visa, granted after a political struggle between Congress and the White House, caught the Government of China off guard. It had apparently underestimated Congress's influence over the process.


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For Andrea, the real culprit in the exhaustion of low memory is clear: it's the reverse-mapping virtual memory ("rmap") code. The rmap code was first described on this page in January, 2002; its purpose is to make it easier for the kernel to free memory when swapping is required. To that end, rmap maintains, for each physical page in the system, a chain of reverse pointers; each pointer indicates a page table which has a reference for that page. By following the rmap chains, the kernel can quickly find all mappings for a given page, unmap them, and swap the page out.
The rmap code solved some real performance problems in the kernel's virtual memory subsystem, but it, too has a cost. Every one of those reverse mapping entries consumes memory - low memory in particular. Much effort has gone into reducing the memory cost of the rmap chains, but the simple fact remains: as the amount of memory (and the number of processes using that memory) goes up, the rmap chains will consume larger amounts of low memory. Eliminating the rmap overhead would go a long way toward allowing the kernel to scale to larger systems. Of course, one wants to eliminate this overhead while not losing the benefits that rmap brings.
Andrea's approach is to bring back and extend the object-based reverse mapping patches. The initial object-based patch was created by Dave McCracken; LWN covered this patch a year ago. Essentially, this patch eliminates the rmap chains for memory which maps a file by following pointers "the long way around" and searching candidate virtual memory areas (VMAs). Andrea has updated this patch and fixed some bugs, but the core of the patch remains the same; see last year's description for the details.
Last week, we raised the possibility that the virtual memory subsystem could see fundamental changes in the course of the 2.6 "stable" series. This week, Linus confirmed that possibility in response to Andrea's object-based reverse mapping patch:
Assuming this work goes forward, it has the usual implications for the stable kernel. Even assuming that it stays in the -mm tree for some time, its inclusion into 2.6 is likely to destabilize things for a few releases until all of the obscure bugs are shaken out.
Dave McCracken's original patch, in any case, only solves part of the problem. It gets rid of the rmap chains for file-backed memory, but it does nothing for anonymous memory (basic process data - stacks, memory obtained with malloc(), etc.), which has no "object" behind it. File-backed memory is a large portion of the total, especially on systems which are running large Oracle servers and use big, shared file mappings. But anonymous memory is also a large part of the mix; it would be nice to take care of the rmap overhead for that as well.
To that end, Andrea has posted another patch (in preliminary form) which provides object-based reverse mapping for anonymous memory as well. It works, essentially, by replacing the rmap chain with a pointer to a chain of virtual memory area (VMA) structures.
Anonymous pages are always created in response to a request for memory from a single process; as a result, they are never shared at creation time. Given that, there is no need for a new anonymous page to have a chain of reverse mappings; we know that there can be only a single mapping. Andrea's patch adds a union to struct page which includes the existing mapping pointer (for non-anonymous memory) and adds a couple of new ones. One of those is simply called vma, and it points to the (single) VMA structure pointing to the page. So if a process has several non-shared, anonymous pages in the same virtual memory area, the structure looks somewhat like this:
With this structure, the kernel can find the page table which maps a given page by following the pointers through the VMA structure.
Life gets a bit more complicated when the process forks, however. Once that happens, there will be multiple page tables pointing to the same anonymous pages and a single VMA pointer will no longer be adequate. To deal with this case, Andrea has created a new "anon_vma" structure which implements a linked list of VMAs. The third member of the new struct page union is a pointer to this structure which, in turn, points to all VMAs which might contain the page. The structure now looks like:
If the kernel needs to unmap a page in this scenario, it must follow the linked list and examine every VMA it finds. Once the page is unmapped from every page table found, it can be freed.
There are some memory costs to this scheme: the VMA structure requires a new list_head structure, and the anon_vma structure must be allocated whenever a chain must be formed. One VMA can refer to thousands of pages, however, so a per-VMA cost will be far less than the per-page costs incurred by the existing rmap code.
This approach does incur a greater computational cost. Freeing a page requires scanning multiple VMAs which may or may not contain references to the page under consideration. This cost will increase with the number of processes sharing a memory region. Ingo Molnar, who is fond of O(1) solutions, is nervous about object-based schemes for this reason. According to Ingo, losing the possibility of creating an O(1) page unmapping scheme is a heavy cost to pay for the prize of making large amounts of memory work on obsolete hardware.
The solution that Ingo would like to see, instead, is to reduce the per-page memory overhead by reducing the number of pages. The means to that end is page clustering - grouping adjacent hardware pages into larger virtual pages. Page clustering would reduce rmap overhead, and reduce the size of the main kernel memory map as well. The available page clustering patch is even more intrusive than object-based reverse mapping, however; it seems seriously unlikely to be considered for 2.6.
Virtual Memory II: the return of objrmap
Posted Mar 11, 2004 18:51 UTC (Thu) by riel (subscriber, #3142) [Link]
It's good to see that the last reason that caused me to make the pte based rmap code is finally dissolving. A well working object based rmap is much lighter weight...
Posted Mar 18, 2004 13:42 UTC (Thu) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link]
I guess even Linus sometimes bows to pressure. After all, all this complication is quite unnecessary, it is a decade now that we've had 64 bits processors. Nothing but Wintel FUD and proprietary software prevents users from running 64 bits now.
It could be argued that 64 bits vendors haven't been doing the right thing. Now Linus is on a POWER64 machine, but he should have been there for a long time, or on UltraSPARC. A pity Intel killed the Alpha, which was once Linus' platform. Also other developers should have been long ago given such systems.
I hope the BSDs and the Hurd stick to sanity.
Posted Mar 21, 2004 15:34 UTC (Sun) by alpharomeo (guest, #20341) [Link]
Posted Apr 16, 2004 18:20 UTC (Fri) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link]
> what "Intel killed the Alpha" means
Alpha ceased to be developed.
> Alphas are available now (e.g., Compaq ES-47)
Expensive, limited, substandard. In other words, not developed neither as technology nor as a platform.
> the Alpha technology is planned to be integrated into the Itanium
Processor architecture is not like Lego where you can mix and match. The Itanium and Alpha architectures are fundamentally different and philosophically opposed. Some Alpha tricks may be incorporated into Itanium, but it will never see the potential Alpha had, and POWER still has but with a different focus. Some argue that nothing has the potential Alpha had.
Posted May 24, 2004 7:19 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
Posted Mar 21, 2004 15:31 UTC (Sun) by alpharomeo (guest, #20341) [Link]
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