[5030] in Athena Bugs
Re: maxtextcache
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@MIT.EDU)
Fri Jun 1 19:48:18 1990
From: probe@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 90 19:47:55 -0400
To: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: release7@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
"It hurts performance" was not the reason it was changed. Ed pointed out
that the cache flushing was not working. In essence, the only thing it
was doing was contributing some vm fragmentation, and providing an ineffective
cache, since the cache replacement and flushing algorithms were faulty.
-Richard
