Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages

Dave Jones
2002-03-07T11:31:37Z

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:21:50PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I just imagined hardware which supports freeing memory -- just do not
> refresh it any more to conserve power ;-))).
> Granted, it would probably only make sense in big chunks, like 2MB or
> so... It might make sense for a PDA...

ISTR reading about one handheld that did something like this (possibly psion)
The hardware has the ability to migrate data from one memory bank to
another and power down the least used one.

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