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    SubjectRe: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell
    On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:

    > OK, so it takes four seconds to swap mozilla back in, and you noticed it.
    >
    > Did you notice that those three kernel builds you just did ran in twenty
    > seconds less time because they had more cache available? Nope.

    That's exactly why desktops should be optimised to give
    the best performance where the user notices it most...

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    by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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