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Date:      Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:41:20 -0700
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MADV_SEQUENTIAL and GNU Grep 
Message-ID:  <199907291741.KAA00195@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:21:52 -0700 (PDT) 
 Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:

 >     I'm testing it now along with the madvise(... MADV_DONTNEED) changes (to
 >     make them work on files in a reasonable way).

When I implemented MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE in NetBSD (UVM):

	DONTNEED: deactivate pages

	FREE: don't clean dirty pages, free all pages in range

It was fairly straightforward in NetBSD.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>



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