Matt Dillon wrote:
>
> One possible fix would be to have the kernel track cache hits and misses
> on a file and implement a heuristic from those statistics which is used
> to reduce the 'initial page weighting' for pages read-in from the
> 'generally uncacheable file'. This would cause the kernel to reuse
> those cache pages more quickly and prevent it from throwing away (reusing)
> cache pages associated with more cacheable files like the .index and
> .hash files. I don't have time to do this now, but it's definitely
> something I am going to keep in mind for a later release.
That sounds very, very clever. In fact, it sounds so clever I keep
wondering what is the huge flaw with it. :-) Still, promising, to say
the least.
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