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otterley on Feb 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: HyperDex: A Searchable Distributed Key-Value Store

Did you read my entire comment? I specifically said, "when the working set is larger than RAM."

Your observations, while true in the abstract, don't reflect real-world behavior under these conditions.

icanhazdata on March 3, 2012 [–]

Working set larger than ram doesn't imply thrashing. It all depends on the page replacement algorithm employed by the OS, and the applications that are running.

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