Re: Help --> How to prevent the visit from the dreaded guru

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From: David S. Herron
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 1991 02:24

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In article <MWM.91Jan8180131@raven.relay.pa.dec.com> mwm@raven.relay.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes:
>BTW, if you look around in the Unix groups, you'll find people arguing
>that RAM: disks are wonderful things (even on ther demand paged
>virtual memory systems), and trying to find drivers for them. And no,
>I can't explain that either.

Well, see, I've always had this evil desire to have the swap device
be a RAM disk ... ;-)

Something that seems vaguely useful is in SunOS v4.1+ .. TMPFS .. which
lets /tmp be allocated out of virtual memory.  I dunno .... Now.. if swap
space were to come from any free space, like it does on Mach, *THAT* would
be useful ...

	David
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From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
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Subject: Re: Help --> How to prevent the visit from the dreaded guru
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