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From: wagner@utcsstat.UUCP
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Subject: Re: LMC Mega-foobar
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Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 22:48:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 25 22:48:26 1983
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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)