Welcome, my name is Harish Mallipeddi. I work for Amazon Web Services (AWS). This blog is mostly a dump of interesting articles that I come across on the web. Topics span across multiple areas including algorithms/datastructures, NoSQL stores, database internals, web-scale challenges, and functional languages.
Even though your box might have lot of physical memory left, Linux would prefer to swap out your process so it can allocate more space for the filesystem cache. Read Smugmug and Kevin Burton’s blog posts and the comments.
