From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: pages not marked as accessed on non-page boundaries
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 09:44:37 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412050944040.5582@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041205141342.GA29174@cistron.nl>
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> When you have a database accessing small amounts of data
> in an index file randomly, then most of those pages will
> not be marked as read and will be thrown out too soon.
> Would it be a good thing to fix this ? Patch is below.
Your patch makes a lot of sense to me. This should help
keep database indexes in memory...
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2004-12-05 14:13 Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-12-05 14:44 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2004-12-06 14:44 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
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