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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Warning! The file SWAPPER.DAT is full!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.190915.19787@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Sep02.001315.61184@ans.net> <1992Sep2.153650.13382@PA.dec.com> <1992Sep3.105329.23961@ugle.unit.no>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:09:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep3.105329.23961@ugle.unit.no> hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting) writes:
- >I tried to run a program that eats memory until os/2 runs out of it.
- >I found that the swapfile shrinks after stopping the program, but
- >it don't happen immediately. The machine may be idle for a while,
- >or I can do something else,
- >( wich don't require much disk space, of course), and suddenly
- >os/2 decides to reduce the swapfile.
- >The swapfile is never reduced to its minimum of 2MB even if I close
- >everything, it insists on at least 3.5MB.
- >Either something strange is going on, or perhaps IBM is
- >making bad patches now so that 2.1 will look as a big improvement?
-
- Spend half a minute thinking about this behavior, then ask yourself,
- "If I were designing a virtual memory system, isn't this the way I
- would implement it for best performance?"
-
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