Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 21:51:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, angio@angio.net, perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with fstat? Message-ID: <199710282151.OAA15707@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199710281829.NAA16590@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Oct 28, 97 01:29:17 pm
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> > > It doesn't 'discard', but should either deactivate or cache the page. > > Pages are usually pretty darned unused by the time they are on the > inactive or cache queues. But will this page be reused before another page that was less recently accessed? In other words, when push comes to shove, is a deactivated/cached page reused before forcing a clean page backed by a file without MADV_SEQUENTIAL? Ie: what effect does MADV_SEQUENTIAL have on cache thrashing? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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