In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 10/17/2005
   at 11:29 PM, "Craddock, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>Everyone is memory constrained at some point. That's what paging
>storage on AUX is for and even though you may not have done any
>paging since the Reagan administration, its still the way the system
>will work if you let it.

And paging I/O has far less overhead than application-level I/O. Cut
back on virtual storage and you may see your I/O load go up; you may
even see your real storage use go up. The Devil is in the details.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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