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The Linux 3.8 Kernel Can Save A Lot Of RAM

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https://www.linux.com – For certain workloads with the Linux 3.8 kernel the physical memory usage is lowered by a significant amount thanks to improvements within this kernel that's presently under development... For certain workloads with the Linux 3.8 kernel the physical memory usage is lowered by a significant amount thanks to improvements within this kernel that's presently under development. Linus Torvalds merged this afternoon Andrew Morton's patch-bomb for the Linux 3.8 merge window that opened earlier this week. When it comes to the miscellaneous VM changes happening for Linux 3.8, there's one item in par (Software)

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