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Old Mar 21st, 2007, 6:56 PM   #22
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I don't think you'd find it trivial. At the same time, I don't want to discourage you from doing what you can. Modern OSs are fairly successful. I think a lot of people aren't aware that disk operations are orders of magnitude slower than memory operations because of that success. Forcing a dump of the whole thing, if it didn't clear the cache, would be a write-through op and not necessarily incur the time expense of forcing a dump AND clearing cache.

Dang it, you're going to mess around and pique my interest and make me look at things that I haven't bothered with for years. Bad Sane, bad Sane.
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