Re: [RFC] Defragmentation proposal: preventative maintenance and cleanup [LONG]

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 16:38:42 EST

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On September 7, 2001 11:15 am, Alex Bligh - linux-kernel wrote:
> >> It becomes effectively useless. The probability of all 8 pages of a given
> The chance of seeing more than 500 events of probability
> p = 2.5 ^ (10^-6) across 32000 samples, is vanishingly
> small. Yet it looks this way all the time.
>
> Hence I conclude your model is wrong :-)

True. OK, need to make a better model, time to crack my Knuth.

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