Re: Thread implementations...
Richard Gooch (Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:16:02 +1000
Stephen C. Tweedie writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 13:53:36 +1000, Richard Gooch
> <Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU> said:
>
> > This may be true, but my point is that we *need* a decent madvise(2)
> > implementation. It will be use to a greater range of applications than
> > sendfile(2).
>
> Not necessarily; we may be able to detect a lot of the relevant access
> patterns ourselves. Ingo has had a swap prediction algorithm for a
> while, and we talked at Usenix about a number of other things we can do
> to tune vm performance automatically. 2.3 ought to be a great deal
> better. madvise() may still have merit, but we really ought to be
> aiming at making the vm system as self-tuning as possible.
Including when I access my tiled data?
Regards,
Richard....
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