david@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU (David J. Camp) (02/12/91)
I have had problems with long delays using emacs, when it got swapped out after a period of inactivity. I suppose it simply took too long to reload 1MB of program from the disk. I suggest that the GNU operating system support a special provision for interactive jobs. Whenever a job receives input from a tty, it is assigned interactive status. This will give its memory pages a priority over non-interactive jobs. For example, a page used by an interactive job can age more slowly than one for a noninteractive job. This will allow users to pause for a while, without losing their place in memory. -David- # david@wubios.wustl.edu ^ Mr. David J. Camp # # david%wubios@wugate.wustl.edu < * > +1 314 382 0584 # # ...!uunet!wugate!wubios!david v "God loves material things." # # abs (investment#1 - investment#2) << abs (anyinvestment - anydebt) #