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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: how much real memory
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.152918.12272@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 15:29:18 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.1480.23148@dosgate>
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- In article <1992Jul27.1480.23148@dosgate> "andrew makiejewski" <andrew.makiejewski@canrem.com> writes:
- >
- >Today while working with OS/2 and having a number of programs loaded,
- >I noticed that the system was rather slow while returning to the WPS.
- >Also my Swap File size was getting close to 10megs.
-
- This is speculation, so no flames (merely corrections, and in public,
- please) if I'm wrong:
-
- I think OS/2 works like Unix, in that it allocates swap space for all
- programs, even those that aren't being swapped. This way, if the app
- needs to be swapped, there isn't a problem finding room for it. In
- other words, with 10MB of apps, you had a 10MB swap file, even though
- much of it (probably 4.5MB on your 8MB system) was in memory as well.
-
- Again, this is speculation. This is the way Unix handles swap
- devices.
-
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