Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 04:10:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, angio@angio.net, perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with fstat? Message-ID: <199710280410.VAA06144@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199710280136.UAA05574@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Oct 27, 97 08:36:17 pm
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> > There used to be a MAP_SEQUENTIAL flag to get it to discard buffers > > after they had been accesed, instead of forcing more pages off the > > LRU, but BSD doesn't support this. 8-(. > > > > > Try madvise(2). It has a MADV_SEQUENTIAL. Is this supposed to cause it to discard page A after faulting in page B on the assumption A will not be rereferenced? I didn't think that it did this in -current... 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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