robinson@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson) (05/22/87)
. Well, I've been thinking again (when will I learn my lesson). What I was thinking was that it would be great to have a trackdisk.device that used up all of available (chip?) ram for track buffers, and released the buffers on a least recently used basis when memory was allocated (in sort of the same way that libraries stick around until the memory is needed). Am I off in left field once again, or is this possible? Would the .device have to intercept calls to the memory allocator, or is their a mechanism for non-libraries to find out when memory is needed? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "If you study the logistics and heuristics of the mystics, You will find that their minds rarely move in a line" "The Ranger isn't going to like it, Yogi." Mike Robinson USENET: ucbvax!ernie!robinson ARPA: robinson@ernie.berkeley.edu