On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:53:37 +1000 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not that I want to say anything about swap prefetch getting merged: my > inbox is already full of enough "helpful suggestions" about that, give them the kernel interfaces, they can do it themselves ;) > so I'll > just be happy to have a look at little things like updatedb. Yes, that is a little thing. I mean, even if the kernel's behaviour during an updatedb run was "perfect" (ie: does what we the designers curently intend it to do (whatever that is)) then the core problem isn't solved: short-term workload evicts your working set and you have to synchronously reestablish it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
