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Re: Memory utilization & inter-process contention

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From: Andy-Krazy-Glew
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1989 03:35
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>Have you ever figured out how long it takes to swap out a 25MB process?
>Or to swap it back in again?  The fact is, this example system simply
>does not have enough main memory for its workload.  The fix is, either
>double the memory or run the jobs in sequence rather than simultaneously.

Isn't that what the scheduler is supposed to figure out by itself?
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Andy "Krazy" Glew,  Motorola MCD,    	    	    aglew@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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Subject: Re: Memory utilization & inter-process contention
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Date: 25 Aug 89 03:35:13 GMT
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