Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 02:07:07 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

>Also, smart database will limit the amount of cache a particular user
>or process can pollute, this is really useful because it means if joe
>user is doing a table scan on a multi-gigabyte table, he won't be
>able to trash more than x% of the cache and adversely affect other
>processes which are running.

Nice feature that make sense for a raw device not cached by the kernel.

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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