Re: Why active list and inactive list?

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Jan 22 2007 - 21:04:53 EST


On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Rik van Riel wrote:

> It would be really nice if we came up with a page replacement
> algorithm that did not need many extra heuristics to make it
> work...

I guess the "clock" type algorithms are the most promising in that
area. What happened to all those advanced page replacement endeavors?
What is the most promising of those? You seem to have done a lot of work
on those.

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