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Date:      05 Apr 1998 18:15:15 +0200
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Cc:        dg@root.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: swap-leak in 2.2.5 ?
Message-ID:  <xzpk9946y98.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: "John S. Dyson"'s message of "Fri, 3 Apr 1998 02:22:05 -0500 (EST)"
References:  <199804030722.CAA13321@dyson.iquest.net>

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"John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> writes:
> Chiming in on DG:  which would you want: 1) a bunch of initialization code
> or data for a bunch of processes.  2) cache space for data that will be
> more often used?
> 
> We chose (2) as the correct strategy.  If you choose (1) and want to keep
> the from now-on unused initialization code in memory forever, I simply cannot
> understand or agree.

Amen, brother.

BTW, I recently converted a friend from Linux to FreeBSD. He reported
that performance had *doubled* after the switch... Keep it up :)

-- 
fprintf(stderr, "I have a closed mind. It helps keeping the rain out.\n");

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