The performance of paging virtual memory systems

Mark Callow msc at qubix.UUCP
Mon Dec 12 10:58:36 AEST 1983


>	  - It's sometimes useful for an applications program to give
>	    hints to a page manager, but I know of only one page manager
>	    which allows this (VAX/VMS.)

4.[12]BSD also allow applications to give hints to the page manager
through the vadvise system call.  4.2BSD has more capability in this
area than 4.1BSD.
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