Re: Completely new idea to virtual memory

From: John Bradford (john@grabjohn.com)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 06:10:17 EST


> Maybe something like this?
>
> if about_to_spin_down_disks || swap_disk_idle
> if lots_of_memory_free
> page_in
> if little_memory_free
> copy_pages_to_swap

Exactly - plus, if the disk is only, or mainly, used for swap, you
could purposely spin it down after doing the speculative swapout.

John.
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