When did paging get into System V

Daryl Monge daryl at ihlpe.ATT.COM
Sun May 15 10:44:28 AEST 1988


In article <7878 at brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <382 at cloud9.UUCP> bob at cloud9.UUCP (Bob Toxen) writes:
> >About five years after Berkeley came out with it!
> 
> So?  Performance tests showed no significant performance advantage of
> demand paging over the then-current UNIX System V scheme of partial
> swapping.

Strongly depends on the problem you are trying to solve, doesn't it.
Never place much on performance benchmarks unless it is YOUR application
that is being benchmarked.

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