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Stable pages

Posted May 12, 2011 10:32 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
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I cannot tell for sure, but a good candidate for such behavior can be a b-tree index in a database under heavy write load, where pages holding the tree structure are modified repeatedly as information goes in. Maybe sqlite while populating a new table?


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