Re: vm kills processes in our 2.3.12 port of reiserfs - what was the story on the changes to mark_

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Wed, 1 Sep 1999 09:16:19 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> And so if you waste memory by duplicating the cache, you'll be slower

it's not just a waste of memory, it's also a waste of CPU cycles to copy
data twice.

-- mingo

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