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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Paging and Virtual Memory (was Re: VP/ix vs Merge)
Message-ID: <13534@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 5 Apr 89 20:41:00 GMT
References: <15814@cup.portal.com> <212@libcmp.UUCP> <2182@viscous.sco.COM> <6502@mrspoc.UUCP> <2948@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <2948@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
| In article <6502@mrspoc.UUCP> itkin@mrspoc (Steven List) writes:
| >Can someone educate me?  Does SCO XENIX V/386 operate in a "fully paged,
| >virtual-memory environment?"  My system sure seems to be swapping, not
| >paging and virtualling :^>~
| 
| Really?  How can you tell?

  How about the numbers from "vmstat -s" regarding page and swap
activity. On my one system with enough memory I haven't had a swap in 51
days. My other system, well... I get 4-5 swap/day, which sin't too bad.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me