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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:43:58 -0700
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] New disk, i/o error
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> this is not such a pain as it might appear, swapping makes performance
> so miserable its not really worth having, especially given how cheap a
> few GB of RAM is these days.

Not always an option on, say, PC-104 systems.