Subject: Re: metadata cache and memory fragmentation
To: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/14/2004 13:18:57
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> > I'm not sure how to address this issue. I'd love to hear ideas.
>=20
> It might be that a statistical approach is enough to help out;
> something like malloc hints that could bias allocations for the page
> cache to higher addresses and bufcache to lower addresses?
Random thought: with our now much more aggressive release of stuff on
the age list, we may be exacerbating this problem.
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Dan.
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