Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:21:19 +0100 | From | Martin Knoblauch <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable |
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> Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable > > From: Robert Love (rml@tech9.net) > Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 15:16:45 EST > > > > > 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. >
He doesn't like IRIX, so ... :-)
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