By the time you joined and benchmarked these systems, the continuous rolling deployment had taken over. If you're restarting the server every few hours, of course the memory fragmentation isn't much of an issue.
> But you were unable to show an advantage at the system level when challenged on it, and that's what matters.
You mean 5 years after I stopped working on the kernel and the underlying system had changed?
I don't recall ever talking to you on the matter.