Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Mar 1998 09:27:52 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: page aging for _BUFFER_ cache? |
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On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Rik van Riel wrote: > > 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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