From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44B67020.2010002@lanl.gov> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:09:04 -0600 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc4 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Swap considered harmful (Sorry) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7e4e347a-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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