Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 19:08:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: ben@rosengart.com Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: executables over NFS Message-ID: <199808051908.MAA28852@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.02.9808051312200.29834-100000@echonyc.com> from "Snob Art Genre" at Aug 5, 98 01:14:26 pm
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> > They are treated as local files -- that is, first page-in is from > > the vnode, and subsequently aggressively cached, including page-out > > to local swap store in preference to discard, so subsequent page-in > > is from local swap store. > > Why would the file be paged out to local swap? Being clean, wouldn't > the pages be discarded once selected by the page-replacement algorithm? According to David Greenman, they wouldn't. There was dicussion on this a while back, which left me believing otherwise, but now I'm not sure. The main reason to do this is that the swap pager is much faster than the vnode pager, especially if it's over the net. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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