Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!dialogic!paul From: paul@dialogic.com (The Imaginative Moron aka Joey Pheromone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: 386 Motherboards Message-ID: <1210@dialogic.UUCP> Date: 3 May 90 15:58:44 GMT References: <15966@cbnews.ATT.COM> <332@hub.cs.jmu.edu> <883@sixhub.UUCP> <292@zds-ux.UUCP> <898@sixhub.UUCP> Sender: news@dialogic.UUCP Reply-To: paul@voicebox.UUCP (The Imaginative Moron aka Joey Pheromone) Organization: Dialogic Corp., Parsippany, NJ Lines: 16 In article mat@zeus.opt-sci.arizona.edu (Mat Watson) writes: > >Since *nix swaps entire jobs ( which I assume are larger than the >cache ), doesn't that screw up the hit rate? False premise. Unix V/386 rel 3 is primarily demand paged. It *does* swap complete jobs, but only under peculiar circumstances and great duress. The prime memory managment scheme is demand paging. -- Paul Bennett | | "I give in, to sin, because Dialogic Corp. | paul@dialogic.UUCP | You have to make this life 300 Littleton Road | ..!uunet!dialogic!paul | livable" Parsippany, NJ 07054 | | Martin Gore