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On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 09:35:35AM +0930 I heard the voice of
Greg 'groggy' Lehey, and lo! it spake thus:
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> It's interesting that nobody except bde has paid much attention to
> the obvious fact that the more RAM you have, the less swap you use.

I'm not sure that's obvious.  Think of it as a sort of Parkinson's Law
8-}


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