From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 12 14:42:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16439 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 14:42:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA16257 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 14:41:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dyson@iquest.net) From: dyson@iquest.net Received: (qmail 12815 invoked from network); 12 Mar 1998 22:41:09 -0000 Received: from iquest7.iquest.net (206.53.230.110) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 12 Mar 1998 22:41:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 15861 invoked by uid 4420); 12 Mar 1998 22:41:07 -0000 Message-ID: <19980312224107.15860.qmail@iquest7.iquest.net> Subject: Re: MFS? To: jonz@netrail.net (Jonathan A. Zdziarski) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:41:07 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, jeff-ml@mountin.net, toor@dyson.iquest.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" at Mar 12, 98 04:06:22 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-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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