Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:45:50 -0500 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Limit the size of the pagecache |
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Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
> In my opinion, once a > file page is mapped by the process, then it should be treated at par > with anon pages. Application programs generally do not mmap a file > page if the reuse for the content is very low.
Why not have the VM measure this, instead of making wild assumptions about every possible workload out there?
There are a few databases out there that mmap the whole thing. Sleepycat for one...
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