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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
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        Derek Glidden <dglidden@illusionary.com>
Subject: Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 22:43:35 +0200
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On Wednesday 06 June 2001 20:27, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The hard rule will always be that to cover all pathological cases
> swap must be greater than RAM.  Because in the worse case all RAM
> will be in thes swap cache.

Could you explain in very simple terms how the worst case comes about?

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Daniel