:All this talk of memory utilisation reminds me to ask, are there any
:plans to implement directio (Solaris UFS and VxFS have it)?
There has been talk. It's considered 'interesting' but it is
not a priority. FreeBSD's heuristics already handle write-behind
and free-behind
: My systems look very much like this also. Do note that there is 87
: MB free and 1 MB that some time in the past got swapped out.
:
:That's 87MB of totally unused memory, ie. wasted money. 8)
:
:Exactly. And it also slows down other disk I/O. Why doesn't it swap
:it back in and leave it?
:Don't think that's true for textfiles.
:
:I rmeember older *NIXes loaded processes off disk by causing
:a page fault to read in the binary. I imagine FreeBSD does soemthing similar,
:
:The pageins you'd see running cat or more are probably /bin/cat and
:/usr/bin/more being loaded.
FreeBSD
