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Still waiting for swap prefetch

Still waiting for swap prefetch

Posted Jul 29, 2007 23:27 UTC (Sun) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Still waiting for swap prefetch by tialaramex
Parent article: Still waiting for swap prefetch

but if the system is pulling the pages off of disk while the system is idle, and puts those pages at the end of the LRU list so that they are the first thing thrown away if you need more memory, what does it hurt you to pull them in and never use them?


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