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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

> The VM algorithms aren't quite as efficient if you have less than 2x
> ram size.

I've read this in places before (man tuning I believe), but I haven't yet
found the reason for it. I read through the 4.4BSD book's chapter on
memory management but I don't recall seeing anything about it. Is there a
place where this is documented further?


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