Re: Another question about self-paging

[ness]

Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 19:08 +0100, ness wrote:
>
> > [1] is about application controlled file caching. It is pretty clear 
> > that one program alone mustn't decide whether a cache may be freed, as 
> > this would eventually reduce other program's cache hit rate.
>
>
> Yes. The most that an application can say concerning a shared resource
> is: "I am no longer interested in this resource and I will no longer pay
> for its residency". Whether to remove it is a more global question.
>
> If you frame the problem this way, you will rapidly conclude that the
> question of "sponsorship" is extremely complicated, and after a lot of
> literature search

Do you have pointers?

> you will come to the conclusion that something like a
> futures market is needed, and that our meat-world understanding of how a
> futures market works actually isn't sufficient.
>
> It's a VERY hard and very open problem.
>
> shap
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