From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Swap considered harmful (Sorry)
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:07:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da5b6989ae04006854b9a62a1291b7d9@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B67020.2010002@lanl.gov>
otoh, on the low end with *ix, it seems to be a requirment, given how
programs are written. on my 128MB linux box, running X and
gcc will pound the swap file. run firefox, and i'm suprised that
the hd doesn't glow.
- erik
On Thu Jul 13 11:12:24 CDT 2006, rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-13 16:07 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
2006-07-13 16:07 ` quanstro [this message]
2006-07-13 17:05 ` David Leimbach
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