Re: Virtual memory devours my disk

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From: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 12:03

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In article <277@moene.UUCP> toon@moene.uucp (Toon Moene) writes:

>  Well, I can see that's no point with your system: you have a seperate swap  
>  partition or dito disk. I don't, so swap space is competing with news,  
>  mail, uucp and user disk space directly here. Now I don't mind using up 50  
>  Mb in a Mathematica run sometimes (if I know I have the space), but I  
>  would like it to be returned by the time I finish MMa. I still fail to see  
>  why that's such a problem - given that NeXT doesn't want to dedicate  
>  workforce to solve it. If the OS is capable of finding free pages within  
>  the swap file between beginning and end, it is also capable of garbage  
>  collecting the file. The additional work is just updating a few vm related  
>  structures ...

Maybe you should just break down and spend $300 on a dedicated swap-disk.  You  
would be able to fix your problem much faster than waiting around for NeXT.


andrew
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Andrew Loewenstern            |  "listen: there's a hell of a good universe
Cube Technologies, Inc.       |   next door; let's go." --- e.e. cummings

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