From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from jmm@localhost) by bp6.sublogic.lan (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA13992 for linux-mm@kvack.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:01:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:01:31 -0400 From: James Manning Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.2.17pre7 VM enhancement Re: I/O performance on Message-ID: <20000717090131.D10936@bp6.sublogic.lan> References: <200007170709.DAA27512@ocelot.cc.gatech.edu> <20000717102811.D5127@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CblX+4bnyfN0pR09" In-Reply-To: <20000717102811.D5127@redhat.com>; from sct@redhat.com on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 10:28:11AM +0100 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: --CblX+4bnyfN0pR09 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [Stephen C. Tweedie] > > Having said that, LRU is certainly broken, but there are other ways to > > fix it. >=20 > Right. LFU is just one way of fixing LRU. Just food for thought for anyone wanting to read up on other algorithms and a decent explanation of the basic problem. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~solomon/cs537/paging.html --=20 James Manning GPG Key fingerprint =3D B913 2FBD 14A9 CE18 B2B7 9C8E A0BF B026 EEBB F6E4 --CblX+4bnyfN0pR09 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE5cwOqoL+wJu679uQRAQ8wAKCSGlMS2tO+DByDpnFzxmVfMIbZbQCdFrwa 4Y4+oT4DPUFFUf5hsUVwtmA= =ZSf4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CblX+4bnyfN0pR09-- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/