Re: journaling & VM

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

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
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