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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:39:27 -0500
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: please revert bogus patch to vmscan.c
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:36:03PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> It isn't a bug, the referenced bit is a heuristic.  The referenced bit
> being wrong cannot result in corrupted user memory.

We might as well choose what pages to swap out according to a random number 
generator then.

		-ben
-- 
Fish.
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