[Gllug] Writing my own system call

[John Hearns]

On 17 June 2011 17:43, Adrian McMenamin <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
> Actually, I am examining it in terms of "low performance comouting" - ie
> thrashing.


Thanks.
I can say that when you have lots of memory there are a couple of
shall we say interesting effects too.

> Wondering if a more aggressive reaping of pages - based on the
> sort of working set approach used in VMS (and then in Windows NT) might
> have benefits.
Ahhhh... VMS. Great stuff. I once ran jobs on clusters of VAXen
workstations which were the biggest you could build
(120 nodes if I recall). I really liked VMS - it had a column editor too.

but think of something  - add one letter to VMS and what do you get??
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