Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:41:20 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MADV_SEQUENTIAL and GNU Grep Message-ID: <199907291741.KAA00195@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:21:52 -0700 (PDT)
Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> I'm testing it now along with the madvise(... MADV_DONTNEED) changes (to
> make them work on files in a reasonable way).
When I implemented MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE in NetBSD (UVM):
DONTNEED: deactivate pages
FREE: don't clean dirty pages, free all pages in range
It was fairly straightforward in NetBSD.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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