Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!arizona!mat From: mat@zeus.opt-sci.arizona.edu (Mat Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: 386 Motherboards Message-ID: Date: 3 May 90 15:40:57 GMT References: <15966@cbnews.ATT.COM> <332@hub.cs.jmu.edu> <883@sixhub.UUCP> <292@zds-ux.UUCP> <898@sixhub.UUCP> Organization: University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center Lines: 12 In-reply-to: mat@zeus.opt-sci.arizona.edu's message of 3 May 90 04:47:27 GMT I've gotten some responses to my posting, and I STAND CORRECTED! Thanks for setting me straight. I wrote: > Since *nix swaps entire jobs ( which I assume are larger than the > cache ), doesn't that screw up the hit rate? Not True. I'm told that Unix seldom swaps out entire jobs, so the cache actually ends up working pretty well on a single user system. --Mat