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SubjectRe: page aging for _BUFFER_ cache?


On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
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> The thought just occurred to me that disk thrashing is mainly
> due to SEEK time, so we should cache metadata more agressively.

Yes. Essentially, we shouldn't cache meta-data more aggressively, but we
should be _extremely_ aggressive at throwing out pages that we used for
data writes..

I don't think we really want buffer aging, I think we need to just have
some way of getting rid of data buffers..

Linus


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