[CLUE-Tech] memory

[Jed S. Baer]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 19:50:00 -0700
"Timothy C. Klein" <teece at silverklein.net> wrote:

> I only read about these second hand, but I assumes they meant something
> like that.  The real problem seems to have been a nasty cylce wherein
> everthing starts to get swapped out to disk, and then need swapped back
> in, but then gets swapped back out...
> > 

Reminds me of an old VMS war story. Various necessary system executables
were loaded with the "NOSWAP" attribute. The swapper is a seperate task,
and some sysadmin unset the NOSWAP flag. When the system got busy, the
swapper swapped itself out. Eventually, the system came to a halt - I
assume except for the kernel, which was happily waiting for something to
do ... ;-)

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