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Date:      Tue, 3 Nov 1998 20:40:59 +0100
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org>
To:        dg@root.com, "William S. Duncanson" <caesar@starkreality.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Err...something fishy going on in top.
Message-ID:  <19981103204058.A10945@panke.de.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199811030905.BAA13428@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 01:05:58AM -0800
References:  <4.1.19981102235947.052f0100@fire.starkreality.com> <199811030905.BAA13428@implode.root.com>

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On 1998-11-03 01:05:58 -0800, David Greenman wrote:
> between depending on their priority. A change was made recently so that
> cached file pages are always put onto the inactive queue rather than just
> some of the time (they previously would also be put onto the cache queue).
> This actually improves performance because it keeps the pages better LRU
> sorted. When memory becomes short, the pagedaemon will move the pages to
> the cache queue (and then to the free queue) as needed. This will not
> significantly increase CPU usage and will increase overall system
> performance by a measurable amount.

Make world is now a little bit faster on my machine, from in average
95 min real time down to 93 min real time. user and system
time did not changed.

Wolfram

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