On 19 Sep 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> That added to the fact that last time someone ran the numbers linux
> was considerably faster than the BSD for mm type operations when not
> swapping. And this is the common case.
Optimising the VM for not swapping sounds kind of like
optimising your system for doing empty fork()/exec()/exit()
loops ;)
cheers,
Rik
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