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Anonymous
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I WANT my system to eat as much memory as possible at all times. This is NOT a bad thing. Main memory is just another step in the memory hirearchy, just another level of cache, and if the system is using alot of main memory it just means that it has to fetch less data from the hard-drive, wich is alot slower than fetching from main memory. Fetching data from memory can be compared to fetching a nail from your pocket and hammering it into a wall. In contrast, fetching from a hard-drive (standard magnetic platter storage) is like hammering inn 1 nail, climbing down a big fucking ladder, run about 350km, buy 1 nail, run back, climb the big fucking ladder and hammer the nail inn. Repeat.
Using alot of memory is a good thing, please remember this. Increases odds of cache-hits drastically.
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