sticky bit obsolete?

[George Robbins]

In article <16 at vianet.UUCP> devine at vianet (Bob Devine) writes:
>
>  Here is a question to people porting UNIX (and derivatives) to fast
>machines:  is the sticky bit idea worthwhile?   That is, on machines
>with slow disks it was worth keeping the text in the swap area, but,
>with faster disks and more memory, has the sticky bit become obsolete?
>
>Bob

No, you still save (potentially) all kinds of overhead and disk I/O.
Try the following I you aren't memory bound, and haven't done it already.

Set the sticky bit on vi (or your favorite non-gnuemacs editor) -
	note improved repsonse time when you say vi fish.

Next move your favorite terminal entry to the first n lines of /etc/termcap.

voila! instant unix tuning...a win ~90% of the time.
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