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ArbitraryLimits on March 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Help, Linux ate my RAM

Where I come from, what you're describing is called pre-fetching, not caching. That's why your earlier comment confused me.

scott_s on March 13, 2012 [–]

No, I'm talking about caching: keeping data around that you have previously used, assuming you will use it again. However, in order to support caching, you must pre-allocate memory.

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