> On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > The thought just occurred to me that disk thrashing is mainly
> > due to SEEK time, so we should cache metadata more agressively.
>
> Yes. Essentially, we shouldn't cache meta-data more aggressively, but we
> should be _extremely_ aggressive at throwing out pages that we used for
> data writes..
>
> I don't think we really want buffer aging, I think we need to just have
> some way of getting rid of data buffers..
Aging could be the way to do it. Written-out data buffers
won't be used again and will have reached 0-age in no time,
while used directory buffers won't be swapped out on the
first whim.
Rik.
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