> Here is an idea i think i stole from Matthew Dillon`s paper.
>
> Actually it sound more like we take some pages from the near 0
> age and swapping them out but not throwing them away, but moving them
> from active list to cache. So that we can always throw them away
> at near null cost while shrinking the cache. This is like a
> replacement for swap-cache if i`m right here...
This is called the "inactive_clean" list in Linux terminology. ;)
Rik
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