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Subject: Re: Two naive questions and a suggestion
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To: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>
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Hi,

On Thu, 26 Nov 1998 08:30:20 +0100 (CET), Rik van Riel
<H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> said:

> We could simply increase the readahead if we were more
> than 50% succesful (ie. 80% of swap requests can be
> satisfied from the swap cache) and decrease it if we
> drop below 40% (or less than 50% of swap requests can
> be serviced from the swap cache).

Yes --- do a patch, show us some benchmarks!  We could make a big
difference with this.

--Stephen
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