Re: [9fans] Swap considered harmful (Sorry)

[Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>]

>> He said that he hated
>> VM bitterly because of the Atlas days, in which nothing got done
>> because the system was always thrashing.  I pointed out the

there are schemes that avoid having no work get done (for anyone).
unfortunately, most paging systems didn't use them.

> your working set except for the occasional brief overrun on demand.

that's all i rely on, with Plan 9.  the trouble with my just adding more memory is that
my machines are all different ages, and i have no idea which memory
to add in many cases, because the technology keeps changing.
i probably ought to have pasted a summary inside each case, but i didn't.

Linux apparently takes the Atlas approach and thrashes on demand.