9fans - fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Swap considered harmful (Sorry)
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:09:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B67020.2010002@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d93b6194b645efa8c13bb2ca6664be05@coraid.com>

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.

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.

Ah well.

ron


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-13 16:09 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 [this message]
2006-07-13 16:07   ` quanstro
2006-07-13 17:05   ` David Leimbach

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=44B67020.2010002@lanl.gov \
    --to=rminnich@lanl.gov \
    --cc=9fans@cse.psu.edu \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).