Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!think!mit-eddie!jbs From: jbs@mit-eddie.UUCP (Jeff Siegal) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: Page size and the meaning of life Message-ID: <305@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 21:14:26 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.305 Posted: Sun Nov 3 21:14:26 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 06:32:37 EST References: <926@decwrl.UUCP> <931@lll-crg.ARpA> <146@opus.UUCP> <735@mmintl.UUCP> <1764@peora.UUCP> Reply-To: jbs@mit-eddie.UUCP (Jeff Siegal) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 14 Keywords: virtual memory, page size In article <1764@peora.UUCP> jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes: >Not only this, but the number of users also expands. One thing often >overlooked, I think, is that with a paging system, assuming adequate >locality of reference, you can have a large number of pages resident that >are actively in use by a large number of users, instead of having great >unused expanses of memory allocated to large programs at any one time, >keeping other users out of memory. Before all of you single user machine (workstation) fans start flaming about the obsolencance of multiuser machines, replace the word "users" above with the word "processes." jer's point is just as valid that way. Jeff Siegal - MIT EECS (jbs@mit-eddie on the ____net)