Subject: Re: Bad response...
To: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.cuni.cz>
From: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
List: current-users
Date: 09/01/2004 17:56:08
>>>>> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:08:39 +0200,
	Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.cuni.cz> said:

> I thinks similar problems were in linux 2.2 . See a message from FreeBSD's
> Matt Dillon to linux developers, where he describes the algorithms used by
> FreeBSD. http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2000-05/msg00419.html

This one is interesting.

>>>>> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:17:03 +0900 (JST),
	Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp> said:

>   Solaris 8 introduced new cache strategy to avoid this.
>   See page 17 of the following URL:
>     http://nordu.dkuug.dk/NordU2000/papers/papers/th16-solaris8.pdf

Looks like FreeBSD has been using the strategy (i.e. using cache queue
in addition to active queue and inactive queue) since they introduced
UBC at FreeBSD-2.0.5, i.e. before Solaris 8.
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soda