Subject: Re: Accounting for differences in physical memory performance
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/23/2002 17:56:39
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On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:30:49AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 07:16:11AM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>=20
> > I considered sorting the memory by Amiga memory list priority, but som=
ebody
> > explained to me that NetBSD could not really make use of this informat=
ion;
> > once a page is used, it is used. Is this not true?
>=20
> Yes, once the page is used, it is used until it is freed again. But
> sorting in this way will make it less likely that it will be used in
> the first place.
Ah - then it makes sense to reconsider this.
-is
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