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    SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10
    On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:54:09PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
    > Hi!
    >
    > > > You're right. It should never dump too much data at once. OTOH, if
    > > > those cleaned pages are really old (front of reclaim list), there's no
    > > > value in keeping them either. Maybe there should be a slow bleed for
    > > > mostly idle or lightly loaded conditions.
    > >
    > > If you don't think it's worthwhile keeping the oldest pages
    > > in memory around, please hand me your excess DIMMS ;)
    >
    > Sorry, Rik, you can't have that that DIMM. You know, you are
    > developing memory managment, and we can't have you having too much
    > memory available ;-).

    IMVHO every developer involved in memory-management (and indeed, any
    software development; the authors of ntpd comes in mind here) should
    have a 386 with 4MB of RAM and some 16MB of swap. Nowadays I have the
    luxury of a 486 with 8MB of RAM and 32MB of swap as a firewall, but it's
    still a pain to work with.


    /David
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