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In article <724600898.9501@minster.york.ac.uk> mjl-b@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
| In article <1992Dec16.043917.1193@cc.umontreal.ca> kosmatoo@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Kosmatos Odisseas) writes:
| >(At our university, we have tons of 16Mhz,68020-based workstations for the
| > first-to-third year students that use virtual memory THROUGH A NETWORK,
| > [meaning no local hard disk, a virual memory page swap has to be done 
| >  through a busy network] and run quite well. You NEVER (ever) have to
| > worry about running out of memory.
|
| Not quite true -- you can run out of swap space on the server, and there is
| a limit to the total amount of memory a process/user can have. And swapping
| over the network is still much slower than swapping onto a local hard disk.
|
You want to know about running out of VM? The program I am writing for my
project uses Dijkstra's algorithm for searching a graph. Running on a 40Mb
Sparcstation with 120Mb of swap space, I got out of memory errors. OUCH!
(I soon removed the bug that caused the problem - *severe* memory leakage!)

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Simon Oke, 3rd year Computer Science
undergraduate at the University of Essex, UK.