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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: fsck memory leak
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On 04 Dec 2015 21:31, U.Mutlu wrote:
> I think it's a double-edged sword: if user has less memory then
> the integrated caching will IMO degrade the performance.

it is not.  the user doesn't have less memory -- if the user requests pages
and there aren't enough free, then the caches will automatically be trimmed
to satisfy the request.  (obviously i'm glossing over details, but i think
this is sufficient based on the quested generalization.)
-mike

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