On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 02:59:50PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Simon Kirby wrote:
> > Hrmm.. I guess the ideal solution would be that swappable pages would age
> > just like cache pages and everything else? Then, if a particular
> > program's page hasn't been accessed for 60 seconds and there is nothing
> > older in the page cahce, it would swap out...
>
> Again a policy decision... I think such a feature should be present and
> enabled by default, but there are some people who would prefer that
> their configuration not do this, or would prefer that the timeout for
> old pages be far longer than 60 seconds.
Sorry, I made a mistake there while writing..I was going to give an
example and wrote 60 seconds, but I didn't actually mean to limit
anything to 60 seconds. I just meant to make a really big global lru
that contains everything including page cache and swap. :)
Simon-
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