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Re: unexpected paging during large file reads in 2.1.127

To: Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr
Subject: Re: unexpected paging during large file reads in 2.1.127
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:59:01 GMT
Cc: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>, "David J. Fred" <djf@ic.net>, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, Linux-MM List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
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Hi,

On 12 Nov 1998 23:45:42 +0100, Zlatko Calusic <Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr>
said:

>> Agreed, we should do something about that.
>> 
>> > +			age_page(page);
>> > +			age_page(page);
>> >  			age_page(page);

The real cure is to disable page aging in the page cache completely.
Now that we have disabled it for swap, it makes absolutely no sense at
all to keep it in the page cache.

--Stephen
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