Re: virtual disk system (swap enhancement idea too)

Pavel Machek (pavel@elf.ucw.cz)
Sun, 22 Feb 1998 12:25:37 +0100


Hi!

> <OFFTOPIC>As an aside, it would be neat if the kernel would pre-write
> pages to disk so that when it came time to swap to disk, there would
> already be some pages written. Of course this should only happen when
> there isn't alot of disk accesses going on.</OFFTOPIC>

Power saving people will not like this idea, as it causes disk traffic
even if one is not needed.

Pavel

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