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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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