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blitzkrieg3
2y ago
On the 37th floor of my office buildin I didn't even feel it. Others said they thought it was the wind. Tuned mass dampers are no joke.
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blitzkrieg3
3y ago
And he references the exact blog post here. I hear it as 6/8 (definitely a rest after the first three 16th notes which is born out in the timing) and I still think that's closer, but I appreciate the 21/32 argument and glad t
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blitzkrieg3
3y ago
If I had to guess it's because this one is unbranded and released as open source
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blitzkrieg3
3y ago
mmap() will keep things in memory after first loading, but the page cache will _also_ keep things in memory after first loading. The difference is in order to re-use that you still need to read the file and store yourself (requiring 2x memo
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blitzkrieg3
3y ago
This is a misconception you and parent are perpetuating. fork() existed in this problematic 2x memory implementation _way_ before overcommit, and overcommit was non-existent or disabled on Unix (which has fork()) before Linux made it the de
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blitzkrieg3
3y ago
It does not happen using fork()/exec() as described above. For it to happen we would need to fork() and continue using old variables and data buffers in the child that we used in the parent, which is a valid but rarely used pattern.
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blitzkrieg3
3y ago
This is the only right answer. What actually happens is you instantly have two 10G processes which share the same address space, and: 3. A microsecond later, the child calls exec(), decrementing the reference count to the memory shared with
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blitzkrieg3
10y ago
This is relatively recent, and caused quite a stir when it was introduced. Certainly not around during Toy Story 2. edit: More info: https://lwn.net/Articles/327141/
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10y ago
It's also a 20 year old read. Edit: Many of these proposals in that have either been followed or exceeded, largely as a result of the September 11th attacks. Most notably Broad street is completely a pedestrian plaza, closed off to tra
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10y ago
> I've worked at RHT and based on the turnaround, it's the guy that writes codes for the card reader. I'm still impressed but not surprised by the level of service he got. Red Hat has a great hacker culture.