Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:16:02 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Thread implementations... |
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Stephen C. Tweedie writes: > 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.
Including when I access my tiled data?
Regards,
Richard....
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