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Did you read my entire comment? I specifically said, "when the working set is larger than RAM."

Your observations, while true in the abstract, don't reflect real-world behavior under these conditions.

Working set larger than ram doesn't imply thrashing. It all depends on the page replacement algorithm employed by the OS, and the applications that are running.

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