Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!xanth!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: System V.2 and growing processes Message-ID: <13322@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 11 Jan 89 22:10:57 GMT References: <627@cimcor.mn.org> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 18 As quoted from <627@cimcor.mn.org> by mike@cimcor.mn.org (Michael Grenier): +--------------- | I can't figure out why the kernel can't just assign the space to the process | instead of moving the entire process to some new spot in memory which | gets progressively slower as the process gets bigger. | | Is this normal behavior for a System V.2 kernel? +--------------- It's normal behavior for swapping systems from at least V7 to 5.2. The solution is to get a paging system like V.3. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, comp.sources.misc moderator and one admin of ncoast PA UN*X uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu ncoast is registering as "ncoast.org" -- watch for the official announcement! Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@.