I'm not a linux expert, but the admins here want to build linux servers without swap space, so would that mean that they had no virtual storage? I tried to explain the difference in swap SIZE and RATE but they just kept repeating "ram is cheap".
Is the "sticky bit" in unix akin to LPA to allow the same code to be shared between users? I hope it's reentrant.... > > Very true. Although we act as if we invented it. IIRC, the first virtual > storage machine was called Atlas, but in 1956 or so? I vaguely remember > this from a college course long ago. Does anybody know of a current > general purpose OS which does not have virtual storage? I am excluding > the embedded market from this, of course. examples: z/VSE, z/TPF, z/OS, > z/VM, Linux, *BSD, Windows, QNX, AIX, HP-UX, many other UNIX variants. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
