Re: Problems reclaiming VM cache = XFree86 startup annoyance

From: Gregory Bond (gnb_at_itga.com.au)
Date: 12/22/03

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    To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:10:01 +1100

    paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu said:
    > Not being a Python programmer, I don't know exactly how BitTorrent is
    > accessing the files (e.g., using mmap),

    I'm no Matt Dillon when it comes to kernel guts, but I suspect if the system is
    saturating the disk, mmap() vs open()/read() is not going to make any
    difference. They all wind up at the same underlying VM machinery and banging
    on the same overloaded disk.

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