On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 05:14:40PM +0200, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > For unmodified data I'm not sure there should be one (why ?) but for
> 
> So that nobody would eat all the RAM just by reading a large file ?

If it's just read (==unmodified) data it's really easy and fast to recover the
ram. For dirty data you have to write the pages before freeing them, it takes
more time.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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