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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:41:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: please revert bogus patch to vmscan.c
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> 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.

Show me a number. Andrea showed his performance. And I claim that our
"random number generator" is really close to reality.

		Linus

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