Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: MOSIX and kernel mods. | Date | Fri, 05 Mar 1999 11:31:47 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> said: > Dr. Horst H. von Brand writes:
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> > There just isn't a 1e4 factor difference between paging and overlays, > > I'd be surprised if you get more than a factor of 2. > > You can do very well. Start your IO early and asynchronously, so that it > completes just as you need the code/data. The OS can not predict this.
Then you have the RAM and don't need the overlay. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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