Re: was there a change in FreeBSD SHM implementation from

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Vivek Khera wrote:

> Sometimes it does, sometimes it does not.  But I still disagree that
> relying on the OS to cache pages that you could (and should) just as
> well keep in the SHM segments already makes no sense.

It's not "just as well," it's "also." If you're caching two copies
of a lot of pages, you're not going to have as many pages in memory.
Very simple.

cjs
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