Re: MOSIX and kernel mods.

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Fri, 05 Mar 1999 11:31:47 -0300

"Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> said:
> Dr. Horst H. von Brand writes:

[...]

> > 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.

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