> Because paging out a couple Gigabytes is veeeeeery different from
> writing a couple Gigabytes to disk, of course.

Yes because writing that on disk will only block the thread performing the 
write, not every thread that tries to allocate memory.

-- 
Salvo Tomaselli


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