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- From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet)
- Subject: Re: Does 386BSD work on systems with 20 megabytes of memory! HELP!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.201347.12419@netcom.com>
- Organization: International Foundation for Internal Freedom
- References: <287902vW30DE01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1992Dec29.082629.3222@convex.com> <1992Dec29.165705.28771@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Dec30.084905.17453@convex.com>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:13:47 GMT
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- It should be feasible to hack the standard I/O library to get
- always get disk buffers below the 16 meg mark. Maybe the
- mmap() call can help here? Is there any paging control?
- This would make 99% of the system utilities perform well.
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- Lance Norskog
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- Data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom.
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