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From: dov@imagen.UUCP (Dov Isaacs)
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Subject: Re: 1meg vs 2meg 7300
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Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 16:33:47 EST
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> At some point in the future, I plan to upgrade my 7300 to 2meg.  I would
> like to know what type of difference in response to expect when I do the
> upgrade?  Currently, when doing compilations with c, the 7300 seems to
> do a lot of swapping.  I suspect that most of this will go away with
> 2meg.  Thanx for the comments.
> 
> 			-- Brad Brahms
> 			   usenet: {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!trwrb!trwspp!brahms
> 			   arpa:   Brahms@usc-eclc

Same difference as a Convergent MiniFrame upgrade from 1 to 2 Megabytes.
You are experiencing thrashing of memory pages - the system does not use
swapping, it has virtual memory.  Threshold for reasonable performance is
at least 1.5 megabytes!