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Date:      Tue, 22 Apr 2003 22:20:27 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
Subject:   Re: libkse -> libpthreads
Message-ID:  <3EA6229B.A67A58AD@mindspring.com>
References:  <20030422175008.P76635-100000@mail.chesapeake.net>

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Jeff Roberson wrote:
> 
> I think your keyboard needs a rate limiter. ;-)

Ask a question, get an answer.  8-)


> So the point of all this is that the vm performed better with processes
> because it was better able to determine the resident set of each?

Not really.  It's all relevent to the story.

Complex things don't always have simple summaries.  That's why
you and I get more money than the counter person at McDonalds.

If I had to give a short summary, it would be "SVR4-derived
systems without a unified VM and buffer cache do a lot of page
thrashing".

That's what I said in the first place; don't blame me if you
asked "how?".  8-) 8-).

-- Terry



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