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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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