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Re: Modern Memory Configurations - was :: Re: Java GOOD -- Fire BAD




       I have been running without a swap file for years for just that 
reason, whenever I can get away with it (Win9x/Me) or I set the swap 
file size to 2 MB on WinNT etc.


Peter J. Wasilko, Esq. wrote:

>Greetings All,
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>>Finally, the amount of memory we're dealing with these days and the
>>speed of our processors <snip>
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>    I wonder if we have enough RAM today that we could dispense with
>virtual memory as a global system wide default and only enable it for
>applications that really need the extra space.
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>    I hate hearing OS X constantly paging to disk despite my capacious
>RAM or having the disk wake up from sleep mode just so I can open some
>little 145K utility app. (I guess Steve Jobs infected me with the bug
>that computers should be silent!)
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>    Moreover, from a Security perspective, I'd really like to be able to
>annotate a variable with an "in RAM" declaration to insure that it never
>gets paged out to disk where someone could theoretically scrape it out
>of a VM swap file.
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>Warmest Regards,
>
>Peter
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>_________________________________________________________________
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>Peter J. Wasilko, Esq.
>     J.D., LL.M.               
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>Executive Director, The Institute for End User Computing, Inc.
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>Its time to abandon brittle architectures with poorly factored
>interfaces, gratuitous complexity, and kludged designs dominated
>by sacrifices on the altar of backwards compatibility.
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>Such artifacts are vulnerable to cyber-attack, weigh down the
>economy costing trillions of dollars in lost productivity, and
>suffer from an impoverished conceptual model that lacks the
>integration and elegance needed to empower end users to
>get the most from advanced applications in the future.
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