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From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] Swap considered harmful (Sorry)
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:05:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60607131005n490e0b47ie3a9a8dbc3c56ae@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B67020.2010002@lanl.gov>

On 7/13/06, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
> Brantley Coile wrote:
>
> >>From: "rob pike" <;rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>;
> >>Subject: Re: [9fans] Virtual memory in BSD and Plan9
> >>Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:38:17 -0500
> >>
> >>I'm a radical here, but I think if a machine is paging, you've lost.
>
> This has been the rule in the high end for a long time.

And I think Ron Brightwell would agree with you both (Yeah, I used to
work on CPlant from time to time)

>
> Sadly, now that people are embedding python in their fortran apps (I am
> not making this up), they're starting to demand paging, not realizing
> what they're doing to themselves.
>

(vomits in terror!)

That sounds insane.

> Ah well.
>
> ron
>


      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-13 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-13 13:52 Brantley Coile
2006-07-13 14:06 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-07-13 16:07   ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-13 16:08     ` quanstro
2006-07-14 11:10       ` Paweł Lasek
2006-07-14 11:54         ` quanstro
2006-07-14 19:40           ` Paweł Lasek
2006-08-07 17:49     ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-08-07 18:13       ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-13 16:09 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-13 16:07   ` quanstro
2006-07-13 17:05   ` David Leimbach [this message]

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