Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!versatc!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!sgi.com!scotth From: scotth@sgi.com (Scott Henry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Virtual Memory / doable 1.4 request Message-ID: Date: 23 May 89 08:49:39 GMT References: <8905200449.AA20664@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> <3856@sugar.hackercorp.com> <3859@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: scotth@sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA Lines: 12 In-reply-to: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com's message of 23 May 89 02:24:59 GMT The reason I would like VM doesn't really have to do with demand-paging from disk, it has to do with de-fragmenting physical memory! Especially programs like SB-Prolog, which like to allocate huge contiguous blocks of memory. I have had many occasions when I haven't rebooted for several days, but have to because I want to run a program that needs/wants a larger contiguous chunk of memory than I have left. -- --------------------- Scott Henry #include