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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: iozone reality check: was zam, please discuss this
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:11:20 -0700
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To: George Beshers <gbeshers@comcast.net>
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George Beshers wrote:

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> Hans Reiser wrote:
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>> When you say lots, do you mean close to or more than physical ram?
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> My recollection is that it was on the order of 70% of physical ram; there
> was significant other activity on the system so it was getting flushed to
> disk some of the time, but I was not actually measuring that.  I was 
> looking
> at cache-coherency across processor nodes and noticed that most of
> the pages in the mmap'd area were touched (modified).
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Ok, this qualifies as an app where it matters.