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Re: Linux/NetBSD (w/AFS?) on memory-constrained machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Feb 1 02:08:13 1996
To: Danilo Almeida <dalmeida@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-help@MIT.EDU, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Feb 1996 01:40:30 EST."
<199602010640.BAA00390@playdoh.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 02:02:28 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
NetBSD doesn't use a unified buffer cache (it statically allocates
disk buffers and uses the rest for program memory), which tends to
make it start swapping earlier than a Linux machine.
On the other hand, the Linux swapping algorithms are not as refined.
Your mileage may vary.
