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- From: oahvenla@hyppynaru.cs.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 14:31:08 +0300
- Organization: What, me, organised?
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- In-reply-to: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de's message of 23 Mar 1996 00:41:02 +0100
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- In article <4ivdqe$62a@serpens.rhein.de> mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
- >Err, yes. If you use more RAM than you have you start thrashing.
-
- No. You start trashing when you use significantly more RAM than you
- have, and the memory access pattern is bad. Swapping != trashing.
-
- And compared to not being able to perform the task at all due to lack
- of memory is inifinitely worse than having to do it slowly because of
- constant disk access.
-
- Virtual memory is, unconditionally, a good thing. Every good thing can
- be used badly, and in case of virtual memory that would be designing
- software and assuming that memory is an infinite resource. That does
- not invalidate the advantages of VM, however. When you can afford to
- give me two gigabytes of real RAM and a machine that will host all of
- it (and pay my electricity bill afterwards), I may reconsider.
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