Well, I can disagree with that on a practical level to some extent. Upgrading memory can sometimes, cost wise, be more like needing so much more electric power that the power company needs to run a higher capacity line to your business and you must then install better / new equipment to support it. It might be cheaper to just find out how to decrease your power (memory) requirements. Perhaps by doing something differently.
And I shudder to think what would happen here if every toilet were flushed at the same instant. On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:58 PM, John Mattson <[email protected]> wrote: > As I remember from Barry Merrill... memory should be treated like > electricity or plumbing. You should never run out. To put it another way, > if you are doing physical paging, buy more memory. It is cheap by > comparison to the I/O and cycles needed for physical paging. (Hopefully > this has not changed since the last time I was luck enough to hear Barry > speak, and hopefully I paraphrased him correctly.) > > -- Schrodinger's backup: The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted. Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be. He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
