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From: malik@alvserv-2.dfki.uni-kl.de (Thomas Malik)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: SUMMARY:  486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long)
Date: 12 Jul 1993 09:14:05 GMT
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References: <21k903$3q4@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> <CA0zHp.CqK@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <CA0zHp.CqK@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>, ralph@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Becker-Szendy) writes:
|> In article <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk 
|> (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
|> >On the other hand Linux does no swapping. 
|> Nonsense. See man swapon, man swapoff, and man mkswap on any Linux
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Bullshit. Obviously, you don't know the difference between terms 'swapping'
and 'paging'. Swapping means swapping complete process spaces to disk
(what bsd does) , whereas paging means putting some fixed size pieces of 
memory to disk (what linux does). Obviously, the former is slower than the latter.

|> system. I was trying to run X with 4MB for a while, so I can testify
|> that Linux can swap a hell of a lot if needed :-)

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