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Still waiting for swap prefetchStill waiting for swap prefetchPosted Jul 27, 2007 12:52 UTC (Fri) by IkeTo (subscriber, #2122)In reply to: Still waiting for swap prefetch by butlerm Parent article: Still waiting for swap prefetch
> The advantage, of course, would be that no existing users would be
The disadvantages are, of course, that (1) few programs will use that interface, since it is too system dependent, (2) few programs will use that interface at the time it matters, since developers usually cannot exactly know when their program will need a lot of memory (who knows that a crazy user create ten thousand bookmarks in his browser and call expand all...), and (3) large program with VM even larger than the available RAM will fail (or cause the whole system to run very slowly) the moment it calls that interface, and most unluckily, it happens only on some small systems that the developer doesn't have access to.
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