Re: Slowmem support - turn uncacheable mem into ramdisk

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:11:06 +0100 (MET)


On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > - swap user pages on the first whim (when there's some
> > fastswap left!)
>
> Hmm. Not sure this is good idea. Copying page into slow memory still
> means you have to copy 4K. Not really operation which should be done
> too often.

Of course, we'd want to make it tunable...

Rik.
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