Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Aug 1997 22:24:40 -0400 | From | Dan Hopper <> | Subject | Re: Memory Management - BSD vs Linux |
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In another dimension, Michael L. Galbraith <mikeg@weiden.de> remarked: > Hmm.. > > What kind of real work do you want to reaaaally want to do in swap. It's > slow as hell no matter which OS you use. It is really only a matter of > interactive performance staying at an acceptable level while these hogs > are running ala batch processing of old. If you have high speed low drag > disk systems (caching controllers.. aka ram), swap becomes fast.. but > then it should be fast.. it's ram. > > Growable swapfiles is an excuse for not configuring the machine right > in the first place IMHO.
Some applications demand it. I.e. large simulations, such as with ASIC designs, etc. I've seen systems with several hundred megs of RAM and several Gigs of swap for large designs. Interactive performance is unimportant in such situations, since they usually run overnight (or longer!).
However, if you were to point out that not many applications that fall under this category (at least in the workplace) support Linux or any of the other free UNIXes, I'd have to agree with you. But it seems to me that such conditions should still be handled at least as well as with commercial UNIXes that are subjected to them.
Dan Hopper
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