Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:54:45 -0500 (EST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Test program with VM or FS problems |
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On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I bet the use-once page replacement heuristic is doing the wrong thing. > I noticed it playing up once - the machine had 30M on the inactive list > and reading a 40M file repeatedly caused that file to never get cached. > it just kept on reclaiming itself.
Hmmm, we'll have to figure out a way to fix this.
A metastable replacement algorithm is sure to make Roger Luethi's load control stuff harder ;)
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