robinson@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson) (05/22/87)
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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?
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