Messages in this thread | | | From | "Douglas Jardine" <> | Subject | Re: Memory Management - BSD vs Linux | Date | Tue, 12 Aug 1997 18:37:10 PDT |
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>> Is the page replacemnt in Linux Global-LRU? 4.4BSD had global-LRU >> and I think that policy has been retained in the *BSDs. > >Linux is a different LRU - its "least regularly used" not "least >recently used". Thats a subtle but significant strategy. >
Ummm....
What would the definition of "regularity" be? How is linux able to keep track of this regularity?
(to partly answer my own question, it must be something reasonablky simple and effective so that it doesn't need to much space and time overhead).
TIA. -dj
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