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Subject: Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management
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> If you really are having a problem with FreeBSD you are going to have to do
> a lot better than this in terms of providing some data points which define
> the problem. I am in agreement with Adam here: either you can work the
> problem or you can troll. I don't see any indication yet of any real problem
> analysis, only a wild mix of stuff non-related to FreeBSD sprinkled with some
> magic 'memory management' dust.
>

The fact that FreeBSD DOES NOT page excessively on the same workload 
relative to other OS (linux, netbsd) is one of most important thing i 
decided to use it.

If his system is heavily paging then simply he have too large working set.