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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: help with fstat?
To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson)
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 04:10:31 +0000 (GMT)
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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
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