Subject: Re: page-replacement strategy (was Re: interactive performance problems)
To: Lars Heidieker <paradoxix@heidieker.de>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/05/2000 22:07:32
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:57:21PM +0100, Lars Heidieker wrote:
> Probably it is really hard to tell which kind of strategy is right for
> Replecment, LRU will be the most fair on overall --- I think. But probably
> not for interactive Issues.  It is just a thought that came up, how about
> mesuring the activity on the vnode paging (caching) and other paging
> activity and then adjusting the factor of how much memory is used for
> caching as a maximum. This should adjust the cache size in respect to
> other memory loads. In doubt I would stick just to the LRU approximation.

I think this is roughly what I described in my reply to the previous message.


> 
> Lars
> 
> P.S.: I forgot to put linefeeds in the bug-report (kern/11636), Sorry.

thanks for the bug report!  (I fixed up the text)

-Chuck