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From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: The performance of paging virtual memory systems
Message-ID: <694@qubix.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-Dec-83 19:58:36 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 11 19:58:36 1983
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>	  - It's sometimes useful for an applications program to give
>	    hints to a page manager, but I know of only one page manager
>	    which allows this (VAX/VMS.)

4.[12]BSD also allow applications to give hints to the page manager
through the vadvise system call.  4.2BSD has more capability in this
area than 4.1BSD.
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