System V.2 and growing processes

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <627 at cimcor.mn.org> by mike at cimcor.mn.org (Michael Grenier):
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| I can't figure out why the kernel can't just assign the space to the process
| instead of moving the entire process to some new spot in memory which
| gets progressively slower as the process gets bigger.
| 
| Is this normal behavior for a System V.2 kernel?
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It's normal behavior for swapping systems from at least V7 to 5.2.  The
solution is to get a paging system like V.3.

++Brandon
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