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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:07:04 -0500
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Swap considered harmful (Sorry)
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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