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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:00:44 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9
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Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>, Rob Fuller <rfuller@nsisoftware.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
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On 19 Sep 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> That added to the fact that last time someone ran the numbers linux
> was considerably faster than the BSD for mm type operations when not
> swapping.  And this is the common case.

Optimising the VM for not swapping sounds kind of like
optimising your system for doing empty fork()/exec()/exit()
loops ;)

cheers,

Rik
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