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Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> said: [...] > I don't know. What if you have some huge application that only > runs once per day for 10 minutes? Do you want it to be consuming > 100MB of your memory for the other 23 hours and 50 minutes for > no good reason? How on earth is the kernel supposed to know that for this one particular job you don't care if it takes 3 hours instead of 10 minutes, just because you don't want to spare enough preciousss RAM? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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