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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: vi core dumping on Sun 2 (fixed, but would like explanations)
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Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 03:22:22 EDT
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(This is not an attempt at an explanation.)  The sticky bit doesn't
keep things in core; it keeps them around in swap space once they've
made it out there.  (They will hang around in the buffer cache for
a short while, but at 200K (for a 2M Sun) that isn't usually very
long.)
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