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A sharp increase that never comes back down over time seems more "wrong" than right to me, no?
by MuffinFlavored 4y ago
A sharp increase that never comes back down over time seems more "wrong" than right to me, no?
- Hooray_Darakian 4y agoWithout more context I think it's unclear. I know linux tends to avoid freeing memory until/unless the system is near capacity, so this test may be running on a system with low memory pressure.
- chc 4y agoIt's not good, but only looking at the bad half of a tradeoff will always look bad. Without diving into the glibc source code to understand what it's doing, it is hard to say if this is actually wrong.
- moomin 4y agoI’ve recently been doing a lot of work that involves algorithmic design with non-technical people and this is the fun thing. It’s very easy to identify expected scenarios, harder to identify how to achieve them and sometimes actually impossible on e you consider things like “the algorithm doesn’t know what happens next”.