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Re: FreeBSD ate my RAM

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Post by mewse-hn »

regenschutz wrote: post #68
haunter wrote: post #54

As for the “unauthorized” sign: Book publishers used to print India/SEA-only editions of books only sold in those countries, significantly cheaper than in the US or Europe. Then a Thai guy realized that this would be a good business opportunity: buy cheaper books and then import them to the US. Wiley brought him to court, went to the SCOTUS, Wiley lost the case. So they ended up printing cheaper edition books. https:…

Wow, I've only ever heard of regional pricing being described as an overwhelmingly positive concept. When phrased as "price discrimination", it invokes a completely different set of (negative) emotions in me. It's weirdly uncomfortable knowing that phrasing has such a big impact on one's emotions. It really shows how vulnerable we are to manipulation.

> It's weirdly uncomfortable knowing that phrasing has such a big impact on one's emotions. It really shows how vulnerable we are to manipulation.

My dad would discuss it in high school english courses: terrorist vs freedom fighter etc

Re: FreeBSD ate my RAM

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Post by goodmythical »

Someone wrote: post #60
shevy-java wrote: post #11

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I remember how NetBSD promoted itself as running on many more toasters than Linux once. Then some NetBSD dev wrote on their mailing list that this is no longer true. Linux runs on more toasters now. (And also top 500 supercomputers, but toasters are the real metal to the petal test.) These fights always remind me of: https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html It's an interesting piece of history too. I kind of eval…

> but toasters are the real metal to the petal test. Or is that a new tongue in cheek idiom? AFAIK, it’s peDal, not peTal, and the other way around: pedal to the metal. The literal meaning is to push your accelerator pedal down to the floor of your car, which is made of metal.

"metal to the petal" gives me more of a "gilding the lily" flavor, especially in cnotrast to the original construction.

Still not sure if it was on purpose, but I read it as a reference to a "but can it run DOOM?" benchmark.

Re: FreeBSD ate my RAM

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Post by 0x457 »

mike_hock wrote: post #72
0x457 wrote: post #21

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Yes, It's just not every tool is aware of ZFS ARC. Which is what this post is about. Author just describes in an odd way.

It's a bit odd that you have to query a filesystem-specific value to get simple memory usage stats.

Despite having File System, ZFS is a lot more than just file system. Sooner you understand and make peace with it, easier it is to use it.

Re: FreeBSD ate my RAM

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Post by irishcoffee »

soupbowl wrote: post #41
irishcoffee wrote: post #36

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For real though, what is the point of running a bsd on a personal computer? Seems like intentionally handicapping yourself.

Consistent ZFS tooling around the OS and ZFS support out of the box, which always works.

So more so because of the storage drivers? I don’t have the specific concern, maybe that’s why I don’t understand the draw.

Re: FreeBSD ate my RAM

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Post by close04 »

exe34 wrote: post #73
stavros wrote: post #63

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Wow, how did we go from "it's impossible to enforce region locking online because you can transmit information instantly across the world" to "locality more easily enforced in the digital world"?

Most people haven't started using vpns yet.

The wonderful world of “no ownership” means that if the store owner suspects anything is afoot they can pester you for evidence of residence and ban your account. Instead of saving 20% you risk losing 80% (don’t know the real price difference).

Re: FreeBSD ate my RAM

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Post by Melatonic »

saghm wrote: post #65
linguae wrote: post #9

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I'm a professor at a community college in Silicon Valley, and my students use online textbooks. I try to use Creative Commons or other libre textbooks, but sometimes I use paid textbooks when they are heads-and-shoulders better than their libre alternatives. Some e-textbooks can be accessed on a subscription basis. I admit I prefer non-subscription materials, but a colleague advised me that often the book that studen…

> The nice thing about e-textbooks is not needing to carry around a bunch of heavy books. I remember the tomes I had in my college days, such as Stewart's Calculus. I'm not sure how relatable this is for people outside of my age group (late millennial), but growing up we used to get chided about stuffing too much in our backpacks and shown presentations about how we were going to give ourselves scoliosis, but then ha…

Which is why you leave your book inside the microwave the teacher might have in the back of the classroom.

People rarely actually use the microwave

Re: FreeBSD ate my RAM

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Post by saghm »

Melatonic wrote: post #86
saghm wrote: post #65

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> The nice thing about e-textbooks is not needing to carry around a bunch of heavy books. I remember the tomes I had in my college days, such as Stewart's Calculus. I'm not sure how relatable this is for people outside of my age group (late millennial), but growing up we used to get chided about stuffing too much in our backpacks and shown presentations about how we were going to give ourselves scoliosis, but then ha…

Which is why you leave your book inside the microwave the teacher might have in the back of the classroom. People rarely actually use the microwave

I don't recall any microwaves in any of my classrooms, but it's possible I just didn't notice them

Re: FreeBSD ate my RAM

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Post by man8alexd »

drdexebtjl wrote: post #71
man8alexd wrote: post #53

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Linux MemAvailable from /proc/meminfo is just an estimation calculated as an arbitrary percentage (50%) of free and potentially reclaimable memory. You can't determine how much of the memory can actually be reclaimed under memory pressure until you try to reclaim it.

> You can't determine how much of the memory can actually be reclaimed under memory pressure until you try to reclaim it. Yes, and I’m arguing that we should be able to, by having the kernel keep track.

The kernel keeps track of active/inactive pages by scanning page tables during the reclaim process. It only scans until it finds enough inactive pages to reclaim. Scanning all pages all the time is very expensive from a performance point of view.

Re: FreeBSD ate my RAM

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Post by exe34 »

close04 wrote: post #85
exe34 wrote: post #73

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Most people haven't started using vpns yet.

The wonderful world of “no ownership” means that if the store owner suspects anything is afoot they can pester you for evidence of residence and ban your account. Instead of saving 20% you risk losing 80% (don’t know the real price difference).

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.
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