4 MB Suns with OS version 4.0

Wayne Hathaway ultra!wayne at ames.arc.nasa.gov
Mon Mar 6 10:11:56 AEST 1989


Relative to Charles Hedrick's observation on paging being different under
SunOS 4.0, I understand that one of the changes that was made was to go to
a more "global" page replacement strategy, instead of treating program
areas and disk cache and so forth as separate "local" paging areas.  The
end result is that single applications can definitely take over more of
the machine, causing more things to be paged out (and subsequently back
in).  Apparently this is even regarded within Sun as a somewhat suspect
"optimization."

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