Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixd.cc.columbia.edu!kyt From: kyt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Kok Yong Tan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Memory (de)fragmentation Message-ID: <1990Jun6.022343.15859@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 6 Jun 90 02:23:43 GMT References: <4372@castle.ed.ac.uk> <16797@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <1990May29.145842.18701@kth.se> <1990Jun1.053103.8277@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Daily News) Reply-To: kyt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Kok Yong Tan) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 17 In article <1990Jun1.053103.8277@Neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu writes: >No it doesn't (sigh). Apple is still using 1 address space for everything >(I've been told - I don't have a copy of System 7). This means there will >_still_ be fragmentation even with VM, but you'll be able to hide it better >by allocating a large virtual address space. > Sounds like a case of sweeping the problem deeper under the rug. :-) =============================================================================== Kok-Yong Tan can be contacted via: | "Oscularis fundamentum!" InterNet: kyt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu | - Annoyed Latin scholar CompuServe: 75046,256 | America Online: Lallang | ===============================================================================