From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Virtual memory in BSD and Plan9
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:59:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lmhpx2e9.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03f901c16187$b0ca6d20$f9b9c6d4@SOMA>
boyd@fr.inter.net (Boyd Roberts) writes:
> A Virtual Address Space != Paging. The former is essential,
> the later is an implementation detail.
The latter (sp!) is essential for other purposes too.
My principle system is a computer with 256 MB of RAM and about 60 GB
of disk. If I want to do a computation that requires more than 256 MB
of memory, then I'm pretty happy that my system is able to go and use
some of that disk to be able to complete the computation.
Now, it's ludicrous to me that my system forces me to decide ahead of
time which space is for "files" and which is for "backing
store"--these are all simply data objects--but that's a defect caused
by the conventional notion of "filesystem". That diatribe for another
day.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-02 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-29 12:38 rob pike
2001-10-29 12:57 ` Borja Marcos
2001-10-30 15:22 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-30 15:22 ` John S. Dyson
2001-10-30 21:13 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-02 9:59 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]
2001-10-30 15:23 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-10-31 10:00 ` John S. Dyson
2001-10-31 18:12 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-31 20:21 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-13 10:34 ` John S. Dyson
2001-11-02 9:58 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-13 11:56 forsyth
[not found] <dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2001-11-01 21:19 ` David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-01 21:23 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-10-30 16:08 bwc
2001-10-30 15:37 bwc
2001-10-25 17:55 Russ Cox
2001-10-25 18:29 ` William Josephson
2001-10-29 10:16 ` John S. Dyson
2001-10-25 16:59 Wladimir Mutel
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