Re: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering.

Rik van Riel
2002-01-22T22:22:41Z

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Hans Reiser wrote:

> Yes, it should get twice as much pressure, but that does not mean it
> should free twice as many pages, it means it should age twice as many
> pages, and then the accesses will un-age them.
>
> Make more sense now?

So basically you are saying that each filesystem should
implement the code to age all pages equally and react
equally to memory pressure ...

... essentially duplicating what the current VM already
does!

regads,

Rik
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