umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (05/14/91)
In article <14613@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, krk@cs.purdue.EDU (Kevin Kuehl) writes: > In article <MLBARROW.91May12184059@mountain-dew.mit.edu> mlbarrow@athena.mit.edu (Michael L Barrow) writes: >> Does anyone happen to know if you can use server disk space for Virtual >> Memory? I realize that it would be lower than the 7-year itch, but since >> VM is supposed to be for those rare occasions when you REALLY need it... > >>NO! NO! NO! >> >>You can't do this & with good reason. VM is slow as it is being on a >>secondary storage device. I wouldn't want to wait for pages to swap over >>a network! > > I am sure that all those people out there with diskless Sun 3/50's and > 3/60's would agree with you. But you can do it and people have done > it for years. (Dare I say close to a decade?) With UNIX you can swap to any device you want to. You can, if you're truly masochistic swap to floppy, or even to 1200 baud modem. Maynard Handley