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From: treese@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Win Treese)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: sticky bit obsolete?
Message-ID: <977@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 13:10:47 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  8 13:10:47 1986
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Organization: MIT Project Athena
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In article <16@vianet.UUCP> devine@vianet (Bob Devine) writes:
>
>  Here is a question to people porting UNIX (and derivatives) to fast
>machines:  is the sticky bit idea worthwhile?   That is, on machines
>with slow disks it was worth keeping the text in the swap area, but,
>with faster disks and more memory, has the sticky bit become obsolete?
>
>Bob

I don't think it's obsolete.  In a workstation environment with the bulk of
the software residing on a remote fileserver, keeping the text of some
commonly used programs in memory speeds loading and cuts down on network
traffic.

We're using microVAXen and PC/RT's like this, and the sticky bit is very
useful.

	Win Treese
	MIT Project Athena

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