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[The Imaginative Moron aka Joey Pheromone]

In article <MAT.90May2214726 at zeus.megaron.arizona.edu> mat at zeus.opt-sci.arizona.edu (Mat Watson) writes:
>
>Since *nix swaps entire jobs ( which I assume are larger than the
>cache ), doesn't that screw up the hit rate?

False premise. Unix V/386 rel 3 is primarily demand paged. It *does* swap
complete jobs, but only under peculiar circumstances and great duress.
The prime memory managment scheme is demand paging.



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