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From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews)
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 06:10:08 GMT
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dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon) writes:
>
> that we STILL have a once-a-minute cron job running on the two L's which
> allocates 130 MBytes of ram, touches it all, then exits.
>
Out of curiosity, what does that do? Flush pages to disk and then
force them back into the free pool?
-Greg
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