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Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 overcommits memory?
Date: Mon,  3 Sep 2007 13:09:02 -0400
From: john@csplan9.rit.edu
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quanstro@quanstro.net wrote:
> also, why should i have to have swap?  i really don't want it.  it
> introduces new failure modes and could introduce wide latency
> variations.  linux called, it wants it's choppy, laggy ui back.
>

Also, it's broken, broken, broken on Plan 9 and nobody wants to fix it.
The upside to this is that we can just say how we don't want it anyway,
there's no conceivable reason anyone would want swap,  and operating
systems with working swap suck ;)


John "Has a Swap Partition and Doesn't Know Why" Floren