Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:28:58 GMT | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: prefetching issues |
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Hi,
On Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:14:06 -0600, "Paul R. Wilson" <wilson@cs.utexas.edu> said:
> What is the motivation for systematically preferring to evict mapped > pages rather than swapped pages?
The preference is to evict filesystem cache pages and buffer cache pages, and yes, there is a great deal of evidence that this works better.
--Stephen
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