Re: virtual disk system (swap enhancement idea too)
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer (linker@nightshade.ml.org)
Sun, 22 Feb 1998 18:02:32 -0500 (EST)
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > <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
Then they dont need to turn it on.. This would be a GREAT feature..
Computer sits at home all day with nothing going on .. You come home and
startup netscape and it doesn't have to actually swap at all... This is
nice.. and would not likely be hard to impliment.. Just make it sysctl
controlable.. :)
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