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From: mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (System Mangler)
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Subject: Re: RAM disk vs paging + buffer cache
Message-ID: <909@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: Mon, 18-Aug-86 01:31:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: cit-vax.909
Posted: Mon Aug 18 01:31:41 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 18-Aug-86 23:25:09 EDT
References: <514@opus.nbires.UUCP>
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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Summary: Rieser paging Unix

In article <514@opus.nbires.UUCP>, rcd@nbires.UUCP (Dick Dunn) writes:
> Instead of LRU on disk blocks and LRU on process-image pages, why not LRU
> on the whole mess.  There's a simplification lurking here--after all, the
> pages of images represent disk blocks too.  Has anyone tried fiddling with
> UNIX either to make the buffer cache size adaptive or to unify page
> management and buffer caching?

Didn't J. F. Rieser (spelling?) long ago implement a paging Unix
that used the buffer cache as a page pool?  Or was this just an
idea floating around that didn't get implemented?