On 25 Jun 2001, John Fremlin wrote:
> Last year I had the idea of tracing the memory accesses of the system
> to improve the VM - the traces could be used to test algorithms in
> userspace. The difficulty is of course making all memory accesses
> fault without destroying system performance.
Sounds like a cool idea. One thing you should keep in mind
though is to gather traces of the WHOLE SYSTEM and not of
individual applications.
There has to be a way to balance the eviction of pages from
applications against those of other applications.
regards,
Rik
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