sticky bit

[Steve Elias]

what are people's feelings about using the sticky bit to improve
interactive performance on workstations?  would i be shooting anyone in
the foot if i turned on the sticky bit for our gnu-emacs editor?  has
anyone tried this?

steve elias
(eli at spdcc.com)

[[ I've often wondered just what the sticky bit does in a demand-paged VM
system.  The documentation isn't what I would call descriptive about this.
I have a vague idea what it's suppsed to do, but what does it *actually*
do?  --wnl ]]