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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:48057 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3832 comp.windows.x.i386unix:2528 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!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tedux!mo!compi!muts From: muts@muts.hacktic.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long) In-Reply-To: malik@alvserv-2.dfki.uni-kl.de's message of 12 Jul 1993 09:14:05 GMT References: <21k903$3q4@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> <CA0zHp.CqK@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> <21ra0tINNgeg@serv-200.dfki.uni-kl.de> Sender: muts@muts.hacktic.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Organization: My unorganized home Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 19:47:27 GMT Message-ID: <MUTS.93Jul13204727@muts.hacktic.nl> Lines: 16 On 12 Jul 1993 09:14:05 GMT, malik@alvserv-2.dfki.uni-kl.de (Thomas Malik) said: TM> Bullshit. Obviously, you don't know the difference between terms TM> 'swapping' and 'paging'. Swapping means swapping complete TM> process spaces to disk (what bsd does) , whereas paging means TM> putting some fixed size pieces of memory to disk (what linux TM> does). Obviously, the former is slower than the latter. As far as I know BSD uses both paging and swapping. I think any modern Unix uses both. Paging is normal, but when the load gets so high that context switching overhead becomes too much processes will be swapped out. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Peter Mutsaers | Bunnik (Ut), | Quod licet bovi, muts@muts.hacktic.nl | the Netherlands | non licet Jovi