Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Feb 1998 12:25:37 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: virtual disk system (swap enhancement idea too) |
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Hi!
> <OFFTOPIC>As an aside, it would be neat if the kernel would pre-write > pages to disk so that when it came time to swap to disk, there would > already be some pages written. Of course this should only happen when > there isn't alot of disk accesses going on.</OFFTOPIC>
Power saving people will not like this idea, as it causes disk traffic even if one is not needed.
Pavel
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