Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:32:35 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: Thread implementations... |
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Hi,
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 13:53:36 +1000, Richard Gooch <Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU> said:
> This may be true, but my point is that we *need* a decent madvise(2) > implementation. It will be use to a greater range of applications than > sendfile(2).
Not necessarily; we may be able to detect a lot of the relevant access patterns ourselves. Ingo has had a swap prediction algorithm for a while, and we talked at Usenix about a number of other things we can do to tune vm performance automatically. 2.3 ought to be a great deal better. madvise() may still have merit, but we really ought to be aiming at making the vm system as self-tuning as possible.
--Stephen
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