Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!olivea!mintaka!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!mlbarrow From: mlbarrow@athena.mit.edu (Michael L Barrow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: System 7 VM Message-ID: Date: 12 May 91 22:41:05 GMT References: <2728@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: weiss@watson.seas.ucla.edu's message of 12 May 91 00:56:18 GMT In article <2728@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> weiss@watson.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss) writes: Does anyone happen to know if you can use server disk space for Virtual Memory? I realize that it would be lower than the 7-year itch, but since VM is supposed to be for those rare occasions when you REALLY need it... -- \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | / - Michael Weiss weiss@watson.seas.ucla.edu | School of Engineering and - - izzydp5@oac.ucla.edu | Applied Science, UCLA - / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | \ NO! NO! NO! You can't do this & with good reason. VM is slow as it is being on a secondary storage device. I wouldn't want to wait for pages to swap over a network! A general note to anyone: If you don't know that much about VM and how it's to be used, grab a good intro book on UNIX or Operating Systems. The network disk for VM space concept is clearly against the VM philosophy! -- ======================================================================= | Michael L Barrow | "If any of the above offended you, it was | | | my idea to do it -- not MIT's" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Consultant | MIT Computing Support Services (CSS) | | Member | Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) | | Student | Computer Engineering Major, '93 | =======================================================================