Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Aug 1998 02:07:07 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???) |
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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>Also, smart database will limit the amount of cache a particular user >or process can pollute, this is really useful because it means if joe >user is doing a table scan on a multi-gigabyte table, he won't be >able to trash more than x% of the cache and adversely affect other >processes which are running.
Nice feature that make sense for a raw device not cached by the kernel.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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