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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: File cache needs lower vm priority
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 15:39:17 -0400 (EDT)
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FreeBSD's merged cache needs to throw out file data at the slightest need from
a real process.  Whenever any real I/O is going on things slow to a crawl.

-Crh

    Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu

                     http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/