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From: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>
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To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.16 & Heavy I/O
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>
> > Is it really neccecary? Free memory's a waste! The cache will be
> > discarded the moment an application needs the memory.
>
> That's not the case with use-once ...

A little more verbosity please?

	-Mike

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