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by chawco 5005 days ago
Indeed, there are lessons here, especially from people like PHK and projects like Varnish. Understanding the underlying system is critical for these sorts of projects. For 99% of users the OS will do a much better job of handling your resources than you ever will, but there will always remain a segment where additional knowledge about how those resources are going to be used can yield significant performance gains.