Return to BSD News archive
Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:47646 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3739 comp.windows.x.i386unix:2454
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!stepsun.uni-kl.de!uklirb!gerbes
From: gerbes@informatik.uni-kl.de (Timo Gerbes - DA Thomas)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long)
Message-ID: <1993Jul12.182304@informatik.uni-kl.de>
Sender: news@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de (Unix-News-System)
Nntp-Posting-Host: kirn.informatik.uni-kl.de
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern
References: <21k903$3q4@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> <JOHNSONM.93Jul12091953@calypso.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 16:23:04 GMT
Lines: 14
In article ... [deleted]
>And if you want to get *really* pedantic, you could say that, yes,
>Linux *does* occasionally swap -- if all the pages of an executable
>are paged out to disk, then the application is technically swapped
>out, no?
NO!
swapping means that the os is determing some overload and sends some processes to
sleep. to choose the right sleepers it must obtain the "working-set" so that
the remaining processes will do their work WITHOUT heavy paging. when you have
many independent processes you get better performance than just "pure" paging.
timo