From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <24e96feb2532755e277da9dbf4b7f9f4@terzarima.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Swap considered harmful (Sorry) From: Charles Forsyth Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:06:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7e39dfe8-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> 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.