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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:07:07 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.19rc2aa1 VM too aggressive?
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On 19 Jul 2002, Austin Gonyou wrote:

> Notice you're memory utilization jumps here as your free is given to
> cache.

Swinging back and forth 150 MB per second seems a bit excessive
for that, especially considering that the previously cached
memory seems to end up on the free list and the fact that there
is between 350 and 500 MB free memory.

regards,

Rik
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