Reminds me how some folk (uTorrent team, AFAIR) thought they are smarter than those guys in Redmond and rolled out their own caching algorithm. Except they were

Reminds me how some folk (uTorrent team, AFAIR) thought they are smarter than those guys in Redmond and rolled out their own caching algorithm. Except they weren't in fact smarter and fucked up the memory usage by allocating all the availble memory for a disk cache... pushing everything else including OS to the swap.