Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
In my opinion, once a
file page is mapped by the process, then it should be treated at par
with anon pages. Application programs generally do not mmap a file
page if the reuse for the content is very low.
Why not have the VM measure this, instead of making wild
assumptions about every possible workload out there?
There are a few databases out there that mmap the whole
thing. Sleepycat for one...
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