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Subject: Re: 10.9 - disabling memory compression
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 21:29:10 +0200
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In article <lZednfcNMN_dtc3OnZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
 Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:

> And yes, there is a gain by turning it off.  Compression, even as cpu 
> efficient as the technique used, does use cpu cycles.

Have you noticed it? Do you know what kind of compression it is? Is it 
merely defraging the ram or is it reusing file fragments?
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