Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 17:04:23 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, tlambert@primenet.com, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, angio@angio.net, perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with fstat? Message-ID: <199710282204.RAA17354@dyson.iquest.net> 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. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com
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