On 07/25/2007 01:34 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
and the fact is: updatedb discards a considerable portion of the cache completely unnecessarily: on a reasonably complex box no way do all the inodes and dentries fit into all of RAM, so we just trash everything.
Okay, but unless I've now managed to really quite horribly confuse myself, that wouldn't have anything to do with _swap_ prefetch would it?
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