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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Info needed Date: 12 Jan 1996 22:25:24 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4d6n4k$h7c@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4cplfe$bpk@news.halcyon.com> <4cpr6p$8cn@dyson.iquest.net> <5320p8z6ym.fsf@virtue.vide.coventry.ac.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk (Justin Murdock) writes: > Is this right? not 56? I can see that it would help simplify swapping, > but it does seem a little odd. Are we likely to see "virtual swap" > anytime soon. (I hope not - what an icky horrid idea) Why? We do already have ``virtual swapping'', but it's not controllable. I thought of this as one of the (few :) things that Silicon Graphics got right: they allowed for a fine-grain control between ``eager'' and ``lazy'' swap. All we've got by now is lazy swap, this is less waste of resources, but you always risk a random process being killed due to running out of swap. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)