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From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
Cc: pablo.borges@uol.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.16 & Heavy I/O
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 14:46:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011207144600.22652de3.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0112061908220.17427-100000@mustard.heime.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011206160630.1f4ab058.pablo.borges@uol.com.br> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0112061908220.17427-100000@mustard.heime.net>

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 19:10:56 +0100 (CET)
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net> wrote:

> Is it really neccecary? Free memory's a waste! The cache will be discarded
> the moment an application needs the memory.

This is not true for all cases.

Regards,
Stephan


      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-07 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-29 15:46 Kernel 2.4.16 & Heavy I/O war war
2001-11-29 15:43 ` Blue Lang
2001-11-29 18:01 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-29 21:42   ` Martin Josefsson
2001-11-30 13:59 ` Helge Hafting
2001-12-05 19:57   ` Pablo Borges
2001-12-05 20:07     ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2001-12-06 18:06       ` Pablo Borges
2001-12-06 18:10         ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2001-12-06 18:28           ` Pablo Borges
2001-12-06 18:38           ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-06 19:36             ` Mike Galbraith
2001-12-06 19:56               ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-06 22:50                 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-07  5:37                   ` Mike Galbraith
2001-12-07  8:43                     ` Alan Cox
2001-12-07 21:53                       ` Mike Galbraith
2001-12-07 22:02                         ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-07 13:46           ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]

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