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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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