Re: Memory Rusting Effect [re: Linux hostile to poverty]
Benjamin Redelings I (bredelin@ucsd.edu)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 10:36:06 -0700
Hmmm.... I thought that the 'rusting' effect was not only a result of
fragmentation, but also somewhat the opposite. The dcache is responsible
for the fragmentation in 2.1.x, but I thought that some of the 'rusting'
was a result of Linus 'fixing' 2.1.x to make it more stable and have the
right interface semantics.
But, I thought I overheard that this interface change damaged the
effectiveness of the dcache code, which would hurt process run times....
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