Re: Performance

[Russ Allbery]

Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I tend to look at paging simplistically in most cases. If you're paging
> out, then you're running short of memory, but one hopes that these:

On most SysV machines, free physical memory not being used by running
processes is used as a disk cache, causing disk accesses to show up as
paging since portions of that cache are freed and reallocated.

There was an excellent tutorial at the last LISA about this as well,
although it was pretty Solaris-specific.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>