Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsstat.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!wagner From: wagner@utcsstat.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.16k Subject: Re: LMC Mega-foobar Message-ID: <798@utcsstat.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 22:48:26 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsstat.798 Posted: Mon Jul 25 22:48:26 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Jul-83 03:46:03 EDT References: <1827@utcsrgv.UUCP> Organization: U. of Toronto, Canada Lines: 11 Background paging processes are an obvious win only when they only consume "otherwise idle" resources. Most small-config unix systems dont have dedicated paging devices, and the disk may very well have better things to do than run around cleaning up pages just in time to have them get them dirty again. Its really a much more complicated trade-off than it is normally made out to be. Most people seem to subscribe to this sort of stuff on a religious basis rather than a scientific one. Michael Wagner, UTCS (utzoo!utcsstat!wagner)