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, [email protected] wrote: > Brantley Coile wrote: > > >>From: "rob pike" <;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > >>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
