> Once a page is used twice, it's not a candidate for eviction
> until (most of) the use-once pages are gone.
>
> This means that if you have these 40 MB of used-twice-but-never-again
> buffer cache memory, this memory will never be evicted until other
> pages get promoted from use-once to active.
Its worth noting btw that you can intentionally exploit this in an app
to get unfair use of memory. That makes me very dubious about the heuristic
Alan
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