Re: Speeding up swap

Arjan van de Ven (arjan@fenrus.demon.nl)
Sat, 23 Oct 1999 22:34:37 +0200 (CEST)


In article <000001bf1d92$ea30f150$021d85d1@youwant.to> you wrote:
> So, the question really is, exactly what do you _really_ want?

You _really_ want the kernel to know that if some pages have to be free'd
for other use, these are the first candidates. So you should cache and even
do read-ahead, but it shouldn't "pollute" the page/buffer-cache more than
needed.

Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven

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