"Martin J. Bligh" [off-list ref] wrote:

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- Making the allocation policy FIFO should drastically increase the chances "hot" pages

 > are handed to the allocator. AFAIK the policy now is LIFO.

 It should definitely have been FIFO to start with

I always intended that it be LIFO.  Take the hottest page, for heavens
sake.  As the oldest page is the one which is most likely to have fallen
out of cache then why a-priori choose it?

Bah. I just had my acronyms backwards ... I meant LIFO, sorry ;-)

M.

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