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Comment by dho...@gmail.com, Mar 26, 2010

Why not just use mmap and let the operating system decide when to swap?

Comment by sebastie...@gmail.com, May 15, 2010

repeating the question from dholth ... why not using mmap and letting the OS decides when to swap? mmap is the kind of syscall used by Varnish to the contrary of squid for which the varnish author says it is 1975 programming : http://varnish-cache.org/wiki/ArchitectNotes

Comment by project member anti...@gmail.com, May 15, 2010

@Sebastien: the answer is contained inside this article: http://antirez.com/post/redis-virtual-memory-story.html

Comment by sebastie...@gmail.com, May 16, 2010

@antirez : thanks for the pointer!

Comment by Mr.Brigh...@gmail.com, Jul 27, 2010

what strategy swap value to file ? LRU?

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