When did paging get into System V

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at quintus.UUCP
Sat May 14 19:13:24 AEST 1988


In article <7878 at brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <382 at cloud9.UUCP> bob at cloud9.UUCP (Bob Toxen) writes:
> >About five years after Berkeley came out with it!
> 
> So?  Performance tests showed no significant performance advantage of
> demand paging over the then-current UNIX System V scheme of partial swapping.

Letting 5 users run 3Mbyte programs on a Vax with only 4Mbytes isn't
a significant performance advantage?  Not fast, true, but at least _possible_.



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