Re: Thread implementations...

[Richard Gooch <Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU>]

Stephen C. Tweedie writes:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 13:53:36 +1000, Richard Gooch
> <Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU> said:
> 
> > This may be true, but my point is that we *need* a decent madvise(2)
> > implementation. It will be use to a greater range of applications than
> > sendfile(2).
> 
> Not necessarily; we may be able to detect a lot of the relevant access
> patterns ourselves.  Ingo has had a swap prediction algorithm for a
> while, and we talked at Usenix about a number of other things we can do
> to tune vm performance automatically.  2.3 ought to be a great deal
> better.  madvise() may still have merit, but we really ought to be
> aiming at making the vm system as self-tuning as possible.

Including when I access my tiled data?

				Regards,

					Richard....