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Subject: Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
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On 05 Jul 2001 17:04:00 +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Well, on a laptop memory and disk bandwith are rarely wasted - they cost
> > battery life.
> 
> Let me comment on this again, having spent a couple of minutes more 
> thinking about it.  Would you be happy paying 1% of your battery life to get 
> 80% less sluggish response after a memory pig exits?

Told like this, of course I agree !

> Also, notice that the scenario we were originally discussing, the off-hours 
> updatedb, doesn't normally happen on laptops because they tend to be 
> suspended at that time.

Suspended != halted. The updatedb stuff starts over when I bring it back
to life (RH6.2, dunno for other distribs)

Xav

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