Hi,
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 12:06:58PM -0700, Simon Kirby wrote:
>
> Sorry, I made a mistake there while writing..I was going to give an
> example and wrote 60 seconds, but I didn't actually mean to limit
> anything to 60 seconds. I just meant to make a really big global lru
> that contains everything including page cache and swap. :)
Doesn't work. If you do that, a "find / | grep ..." swaps out
everything in your entire system.
Getting the VM to respond properly in a way which doesn't freak out
in the mass-filescan case is non-trivial. Simple LRU over all pages
simply doesn't cut it.
--Stephen
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