From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 07:42:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 07:42:49 -0400 Received: from [212.1.33.3] ([212.1.33.3]:47380 "EHLO borg4.zapnet.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 07:42:41 -0400 From: Ivan Schreter To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Buffer management - interesting idea Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 13:39:27 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01060613422800.07218@linux> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I'm working on some hi-speed DB projects under Linux and I was researching various buffer-replacement algorithms. I found 2Q buffer replacement policy at http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/63909.html Maybe it would be interesting to use it instead of LRU for disk buffer replacement. Seems relatively easy to implement and costs are about the same as for LRU. I'm not subscribed to the list, so replies please CC: to me (is@zapwerk.com). Ivan Schreter is@zapwerk.com