Am Freitag, 22. Juli 2005 19:58 schrieb Lee Revell:
> On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 15:25 +0200, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> > Anyway, want to have 'free memory' is a thing like having dozens of cars
> > in your garage which don't want to be used ...
> > 
> 
> Really?  I thought it was good to leave some memory free to speed up
> application startup, so we don't have to evict a bunch of pages first.

Eviction is cheap when the pages are clean.

        Regards
                Oliver
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