Re: LRU writes

> From informix-list-owner@rmy.emory.edu Thu May 2 12:30:52 1996 > From: Guy Germonpre <germonpre_guy/dis@bekaert.com> > Subject: Re: LRU writes > Date: 2 May 1996 14:38:07 GMT > Reply-To: Guy Germonpre <germonpre_guy/dis@bekaert.com> guy, > Please don't miss the point ! I know it is fine the have the foreground writes > at 0, but what then is the difference between LRU writes and idle writes ? > LRU writes are activated (following the manual) via fg writes, while idle > writes are caused by the page cleaner daemons waking periodically ? guess i bombarded you with a lot of extraneous info. the manuals are confusing about the difference between some of the different types of writes. if the *page cleaner* initiates a write, that is an idle write. if a foreground write takes place, it also alerts the page cleaners, which then do their job, but this is considered an lru write. in 7.X they did away with the idle write on the onstat -F option. i think it is superfluous and confusing. foreground, lru and chunk are all that you need to be concerned about. they probably realized this and did away with the idle write statistic and nomeclature. mickm