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This makes sense but is somewhat annoying since a web browser is not the only program running on my computer (but apparently wants to be) and eats up RAM that c
by PeCaN 7y ago
This makes sense but is somewhat annoying since a web browser is not the only program running on my computer (but apparently wants to be) and eats up RAM that could be used for the OS file cache.
I wish there was some sort of allocation API specifically for allocating caches so that recently accessed files could kick out a web browser's cache of a not-so-recently accessed tab or vice versa.
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- nitrogen 7y agoPOSIX does have something sort of like this in madvise(), but I couldn't find a specific option for the semantics you described.