From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
Cc: Dan Maas <dmaas@dcine.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tom spaziani <digiphaze@deming-os.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0
Date: 05 Jul 2001 16:00:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <994341617.2070.1.camel@nomade> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0107051502510F.03760@starship>
In-Reply-To: <fa.jprli0v.qlofoc@ifi.uio.no> <fa.e66agbv.hn0u1v@ifi.uio.no> <002501c104f4$c40619b0$0701a8c0@morph> <0107051502510F.03760@starship>
On 05 Jul 2001 15:02:51 +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Here's an idea I just came up with while I was composing this... along the
> lines of using unused bandwidth for something that at least has a chance of
> being useful. Suppose we come to the end of a period of activity, the
> general 'temperature' starts to drop and disks fall idle. At this point we
> could consult a history of which currently running processes have been
> historically active and grow their working sets by reading in from disk.
> Otherwise, the memory and the disk bandwidth is just wasted, right? This we
> can do inside the kernel and not require coders to mess up their apps with
> hints. Of course, they should still take the time to reengineer them to
> reduce the cache footprint.
Well, on a laptop memory and disk bandwith are rarely wasted - they cost
battery life.
Xav
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-05 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <fa.jprli0v.qlofoc@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.e66agbv.hn0u1v@ifi.uio.no>
2001-07-05 1:49 ` VM Requirement Document - v0.0 Dan Maas
2001-07-05 13:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-05 14:00 ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2001-07-05 14:51 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-05 15:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-05 15:00 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-07-05 15:12 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-05 15:12 ` Alan Shutko
2001-07-06 19:09 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-06 21:57 ` Daniel Phillips
[not found] ` <002501c104f4/mnt/sendme701a8c0@morph>
2001-07-09 12:17 ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-12 23:46 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-13 21:07 ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-05 15:09 mike_phillips
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-04 16:08 mike_phillips
2001-06-28 12:20 mike_phillips
2001-06-28 12:30 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-28 13:33 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-06-28 13:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-28 14:04 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-06-28 14:14 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-28 14:52 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-28 14:39 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-28 15:21 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-28 16:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-28 18:01 ` Marco Colombo
2001-07-02 18:42 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-03 10:33 ` Marco Colombo
2001-07-03 15:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-03 18:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-04 8:12 ` Ari Heitner
2001-07-04 9:41 ` Marco Colombo
2001-07-04 15:03 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-03 18:29 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-04 8:32 ` Marco Colombo
2001-07-04 14:44 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-27 8:53 Martin Knoblauch
2001-06-27 18:13 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-28 6:59 ` Martin Knoblauch
2001-06-28 11:27 ` Helge Hafting
2001-06-28 11:54 ` Martin Knoblauch
2001-06-28 12:02 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-06-28 12:31 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-06-28 13:05 ` Tobias Ringstrom
[not found] <fa.oqkojpv.3hosb7@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.jpsks3v.1o2gag4@ifi.uio.no>
2001-06-27 0:43 ` Dan Maas
2001-06-27 0:45 ` Mike Castle
2001-06-27 10:50 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-06-26 19:58 Jason McMullan
2001-06-26 21:21 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-26 21:29 ` Jason McMullan
2001-06-26 21:33 ` John Stoffel
2001-06-26 21:42 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-26 22:21 ` Stefan Hoffmeister
2001-06-26 22:48 ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-06-27 0:18 ` Mike Castle
2001-06-28 13:07 ` John Fremlin
2001-06-27 13:36 ` Marco Colombo
2001-06-27 3:55 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-27 14:09 ` Pozsar Balazs
2001-06-28 22:47 ` John Fremlin
2001-06-28 22:47 ` John Fremlin
2001-06-30 15:37 ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-10 10:34 ` David Woodhouse
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