Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: sgf@cfm.brown.edu (William Quayle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: *Why* does SunOS-4.0 need more memory than 3.5? Keywords: SunOS Message-ID: <600@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 27 Jul 89 20:24:58 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 3 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 88, message 1 of 16 The main reason is that a page fault under 4.x chews up so much more server CPU. It's >>much<< easier to max a server under 4.x. You need more memory to reduce paging.