Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0 | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | 05 Jul 2001 16:00:02 +0200 |
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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.
Xav
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