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From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Possible Swapping bug (or design flaw?)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 00:59:48 -0500
Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
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X-To: Woody Jin <wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu>

Woody Jin <wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu> writes:
 
>It seems strange to me that it takes so long time, even though Mosaic's
>binary is huge.  But anyway, my system is low-end and I am just happy
>that it works.  I just always leave the Mosaic's window open.
 
The problem that you are seeing is different, but probably quite real.  I
have fixed up the swapping code in 4.4 -- 1.1.5 swapping code still
might have some problems.  If your trouble persists, I can give you a
single line patch to perhaps fix it.  If you want -- all you have to do
is to comment out the line that calls swapout_threads in vm_pageout.c --
see if it helps...
 
John
dyson@implode.root.com