From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 5 12:09:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07442 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:09:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07361 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:09:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05618; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:09:06 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd005595; Wed Aug 5 12:09:02 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA28852; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:08:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808051908.MAA28852@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: executables over NFS To: ben@rosengart.com Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 19:08:57 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Snob Art Genre" at Aug 5, 98 01:14:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > They are treated as local files -- that is, first page-in is from > > the vnode, and subsequently aggressively cached, including page-out > > to local swap store in preference to discard, so subsequent page-in > > is from local swap store. > > Why would the file be paged out to local swap? Being clean, wouldn't > the pages be discarded once selected by the page-replacement algorithm? According to David Greenman, they wouldn't. There was dicussion on this a while back, which left me believing otherwise, but now I'm not sure. The main reason to do this is that the swap pager is much faster than the vnode pager, especially if it's over the net. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message