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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn index 08e31f24..fc035087 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn @@ -526,7 +526,8 @@ system. Some of the problems are inherent to the system design (the kernel can't distinguish between important application data and discardable disk buffers for example), and can't be fixed without fundamental changes. Other problems however are an ordinary lack of optimisation, like extremely crude -heuristics when to start paging. Many parameters are based on assumptions from +heuristics when to start paging. (See <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2007-08/msg00034.html> for example.) +Many parameters are based on assumptions from a time when typical machines had like 16 MiB of RAM, or simply have been set to arbitrary values and never tuned for actual use. |