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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: Note describing poor dcache utilization under high memory pressure
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 02:32:58 +0100
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On January 29, 2002 01:51 am, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> You don't worry about that case.  If there's so much pressure that you
> scan all the way to the hot end of the lru list then you will recover
> that hot/cold page[1] and all will be well.  Not that the hot/cold page
                                      "Note"  ^^^
> will tend to migrate further away from the hot end of the list than a
> hot/hot page.

-- 
Daniel
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