Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0 | Date | Thu, 5 Jul 2001 16:51:23 +0200 |
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On Thursday 05 July 2001 16:00, Xavier Bestel wrote: > On 05 Jul 2001 15:02:51 +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Here's an idea I just came up with while I was composing this... along > > the lines of using unused bandwidth for something that at least has a > > chance of being useful. Suppose we come to the end of a period of > > activity, the general 'temperature' starts to drop and disks fall idle. > > At this point we could consult a history of which currently running > > processes have been historically active and grow their working sets by > > reading in from disk. Otherwise, the memory and the disk bandwidth is > > just wasted, right? This we can do inside the kernel and not require > > coders to mess up their apps with hints. Of course, they should still > > take the time to reengineer them to reduce the cache footprint. > > Well, on a laptop memory and disk bandwith are rarely wasted - they cost > battery life.
Then turn the feature off.
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