5 Jul
2015
5 Jul
'15
3:46 a.m.
On 2015-07-05 03:09, Brian L. Stuart wrote:
Fair enough. And yeah. if you're not doing demand paging, a 68000 should
be enough.
Not surprised.
It is a result of the same thing. Demand paging always has a cost.
Already having all the pages in memory all the time should (obviously)
be better, and with a PDP-11 that is easily accomplished just because
there are only 8 pages, and you have plenty of physical memory compared
to virtual anyway.
Funnily enough, we are almost moving back to a similar situation today,
where people are starting to run systems without any swap space, to
reduce paging. Paging is still there for unmodified pages, though. So
not totally the same thing. But the reason it has become fashionable is
partly because you in many cases now have systems with so much physical
memory that you can do it.
Johnny
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Ok. I
didn't know it was some version of 7th ed. I didn't even know that
managed to get much beyond the PDP-11.
At least that's the way I read the original message. And there were
a number of re-implementations/clones of 7th ed. Anyway,
it's sad, because the PDP-11 hardware can easily
handle demand paged memory. It's just that no one really
found it worth the effort to implement it when you only have
8 pages, and have way more physical memory than the
virtual memory space can address.
It turns out that at one time, there was an experimental version
of UNIX at the labs that did do demand paging on an 11. They
didn't continue that line of development because it didn't end
up giving any significant benefits but ran slower than a swapping
based approach.