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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: "Buddy Lumpkin" <b.lumpkin@attbi.com>,
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Subject: Re: About the need of a swap area
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 01:36:36 +0200
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On Sunday 28 July 2002 00:49, Buddy Lumpkin wrote:
> They implemented a new system that still tends to give preference to
> filesystem pages called a cyclical page cache. I haven't seen any
> whitepapers on how it works though.

This is fairly informative:

   http://www.princeton.edu/~unix/Solaris/troubleshoot/ram.html

-- 
Daniel
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