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From: daryl@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Daryl Monge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: When did paging get into System V
Summary: problem domains
Message-ID: <2934@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: 15 May 88 00:44:28 GMT
References: <53@lazlo.UUCP> <142700033@occrsh.ATT.COM> <651@pyuxe.UUCP> <7878@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Organization: Engineering Design Process Department, AT&T Bell Labs
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In article <7878@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <382@cloud9.UUCP> bob@cloud9.UUCP (Bob Toxen) writes:
> >About five years after Berkeley came out with it!
> 
> So?  Performance tests showed no significant performance advantage of
> demand paging over the then-current UNIX System V scheme of partial
> swapping.

Strongly depends on the problem you are trying to solve, doesn't it.
Never place much on performance benchmarks unless it is YOUR application
that is being benchmarked.

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