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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: pipes
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 01:55:17 EST
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In article <15746@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>... Berkeley UNIX implements pipes as network sockets.  The data
>is stored in MBUFS, I suppose as virtual memory these can get
>paged out incurring disk I/O as well.

No, mbuf pages (soon to be malloc pages [but what about cluster
swapping? from kmempt[] instead of Mbutl[]? gack, but I suppose it
*is* faster]) are wired down.
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