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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: help with fstat?
In-Reply-To: <199710282151.OAA15707@usr01.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Oct 28, 97 09:51:31 pm"
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Terry Lambert said:
> > > > It doesn't 'discard', but should either deactivate or cache the page.
> >
> > Pages are usually pretty darned unused by the time they are on the
> > inactive or cache queues.
> 
> Ie: what effect does MADV_SEQUENTIAL have on cache thrashing?
> 
It improves it.  The system works better. 

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John
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