Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:41:07 -0500 (EST) From: dyson@iquest.net To: jonz@netrail.net (Jonathan A. Zdziarski) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, jeff-ml@mountin.net, toor@dyson.iquest.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MFS? Message-ID: <19980312224107.15860.qmail@iquest7.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980312160547.15473A-100000@gill.netrail.net> from "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" at Mar 12, 98 04:06:22 pm
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> > On the BSDi mailing list we recently discussed the face that you can add a > mlock() command to the mount_mfs code that will lock the pages in memory, > thus making it non-swappable. > Most of the time, you wouldn't need to do that on FreeBSD. If pages haven't been used for a long time, there should be little reason to keep them in memory. However, I can imagine that for certain applications where it might be valuable to do the mlock thing, but in the general case, the FreeBSD paging stats code should minimize paging activity globally. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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