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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: sticky bit obsolete?
Message-ID: <2806@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 07:25:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2806
Posted: Fri Aug  8 07:25:28 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 11-Aug-86 02:14:15 EDT
References: <16@vianet.UUCP>
Reply-To: chris@maryland.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Organization: University of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Sci.
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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?

As to that I cannot say; but it is perhaps worth noting that 4.3
now uses the text table as an LRU cache.  Oft-used programs are
thus effectively sticky anyway.  It is also worth noting that MACH
always runs texts directly from the file system.
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