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    SubjectRe: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable
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    On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 13:39, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:

    > > You're claiming that preemption by nature is not Unix-like?
    >
    > Kernel preemption is not traditionally part of UNIX.

    True original AT&T was non-preemptible, but it also didn't originally
    have paging. Today, Solaris, IRIX, latest BSD (via BSDng), etc. are all
    preemptible kernels.

    Ask Core whether SMPng in FreeBSD 5.0 will include preempt, I think they
    are still debating.

    Robert Love

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