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From: "Stuart MacDonald" <stuartm@connecttech.com>
To: "Rik van Riel" <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Optimization for use-once pages
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:42:26 -0400
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From: "Rik van Riel" <riel@conectiva.com.br>
> Because they occur in a very short interval, an interval MUCH
> shorter than the time scale in which the VM subsystem looks at
> referenced bits, etc...

So what you're sayng is that any number of accesses, as long
as they all occur within the interval < VM subsystem scanning
interval, are all counted as one?

> This seems to be generally accepted theory and practice in the
> field of page replacement.

Okay, just seems odd to me, but IANAVMGuru.

..Stu


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