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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 00:48:10 +0200

> I totally understand the objections that were given regarding this
> patch. But for defense of this patch we also provide a knob to disable
> slow start after idle, which from my point of view is as "evil" as
> this change.

I completely disagree, slow start after idle is way too aggressively
throwing past history away, so turning that off is much safer.