How much paging is "a lot?"

[Dik T. Winter]

 In article <3818 at phri.UUCP> roy at phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
 > 
 > 	I've been keeping an eye on our 4-Mbyte vax-11/750, trying to
 > figure out if it would really help things if we added more memory...
 >                                          ..Is 64 (1k) pages/second "a lot"?
 >
 > Over the past few minutes, it's been at or near 0 for perhaps half the
 > time, with a few peaks up in the 30-50 range.  Is that "a lot"?
 
Well, this weekend I had a 12 hour session with a CDC Cyber 995 that gave
a total of 11,000,000+ page faults, or about 260/sec.  And the machine
was not very loaded. ;-)  Oh, and page size is selected at deadstart and
is 2K, 4K, 8K or 16K words (8 byte words) in size.  Must have been some
disk traffic.
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