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Re:Help, Linux ate my RAM by henrikschroder on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @01:57PM (#3699569)
> Why downvoting?

> you must read a book if you want to understand it.

"Go read a book" is not a very constructive or helpful answer to a question that - as it turns out - could be answered with a brief comment.

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Re:Help, Linux ate my RAM by onemoreact on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @03:58PM (#3700093)
It can be when a short description completely and accurately describes what's going on, but the person creating the comment needed to read a few books on the subject to actually understand both what's happening and why due to other issues.

EX: How does virtual memory get mapped to L1 cache?

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