Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jan 2002 20:21:57 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering. |
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Yes, it should get twice as much pressure, but that does not mean it > should free twice as many pages, it means it should age twice as many > pages, and then the accesses will un-age them. > > Make more sense now?
So basically you are saying that each filesystem should implement the code to age all pages equally and react equally to memory pressure ...
... essentially duplicating what the current VM already does!
regads,
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