Re: cp file /dev/zero <-> cache [was Re: increasing page size]

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 23:19:51 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

>I'm unconvinced. It's pretty clear that the underlying problem is that
>the cache is far too agressive when you are copying large amounts of
>data around. The fact that interactive performance is bad suggests not
>that the swapping algorithm is making bad decisions, but that it is
>being forced to work with far too little physical memory due to the
>cache size.

Yes, this is exactly what I think too.

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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