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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX 4.2 thrashing - the cause? too little memory.
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Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 15:06:14 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 25 15:06:14 1985
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Before this discussion gets any farther I would like to say that I don't believe
that the problem the original poster had was due to a badly set up file system.
I believe that their problem was too little memory.  Correspondence with the
poster revealed that they were running with 2 Mb which I believe is far too
little for 4.2 BSD to operate properly on a Vax with any decent number of users.

Originally we also had 2 Mb of memory.  Now we have 6.5 Mb.  The thrashing
was one of the first things I discovered when I brought up 4.2 BSD here. I was
almost lynched for bringing it up. It needed much more memory to operate
comfortably than 4.1 BSD did.  The problem went away when we purchased the
additional memory.
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Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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