Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Mar 1998 00:05:22 +0100 (MET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Patch for block write clustering |
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On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Under Solaris, reading/writing (at least to swap) is done by > > a kernel thread. When we do that, it becomes way easier to > > program all sorts of complex sorting algoritms, but I wonder > > whether that would be worth it... > > Its called kswapd 8)
Kswapd doesn't do: - swapins - writing of buffers/files (done by bdflush) - reading of files/metadata
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