chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (10/26/87)
In article <15746@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: >... Berkeley UNIX implements pipes as network sockets. The data >is stored in MBUFS, I suppose as virtual memory these can get >paged out incurring disk I/O as well. No, mbuf pages (soon to be malloc pages [but what about cluster swapping? from kmempt[] instead of Mbutl[]? gack, but I suppose it *is* faster]) are wired down. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris