sticky bit obsolete?

[Win Treese]

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

I don't think it's obsolete.  In a workstation environment with the bulk of
the software residing on a remote fileserver, keeping the text of some
commonly used programs in memory speeds loading and cuts down on network
traffic.

We're using microVAXen and PC/RT's like this, and the sticky bit is very
useful.

	Win Treese
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