From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:29:33 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: journaling & VM In-Reply-To: <20000607191138.A6577@acs.ucalgary.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Neil Schemenauer Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Neil Schemenauer wrote: > I'm not sure about this. The problem is that things like file > reads break the LRU heuristic. If the new pages read will be > accessed sooner than the cache pages (instead of being just > accessed once) then the cache pages should be paged out. Am I > missing something? No. You just described why LRU is not the algorithm we want to use for page aging ;) regards, Rik -- The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network of people. That is its real strength. Wanna talk about the kernel? irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ -- 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/