sticky bit obsolete?

[Chris Torek]

In article <16 at vianet.UUCP> devine at vianet (Bob Devine) writes:
>Here is a question to people porting UNIX (and derivatives) to fast
>machines:  is the sticky bit idea worthwhile?   That is, on machines
>with slow disks it was worth keeping the text in the swap area, but,
>with faster disks and more memory, has the sticky bit become obsolete?

As to that I cannot say; but it is perhaps worth noting that 4.3
now uses the text table as an LRU cache.  Oft-used programs are
thus effectively sticky anyway.  It is also worth noting that MACH
always runs texts directly from the file system.
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