-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2017-11-30 at 05:08 -0500, David T-G wrote:
Wol, et al --
...and then Wols Lists said... % % On 30/11/17 03:14, Carlos E. R. wrote: % > % > On Thursday, 2017-11-30 at 00:21 -0000, Wol's lists wrote: % > % >> On 29/11/17 23:58, Carlos E. R. wrote: % >>> When I used Windows 3 (call it swap or whatever, does not matter), of ... % > % >> Sorry. It DOES matter. Or do you want to live in a humpty-dumpty world ... % > % > It doesn't matter AT ALL. ... % % What DIFFERENCE it makes, I have no idea, but the underlying techniques % are fundamentally different.
Come on, you guys. You're both right. At the non-technical level where we're grossly multiplying by two and wondering why, they're the same thing (transferring between primary and secondary storage). At the technical level where we care about the mechanics of processes running and how they are managed, they are different things, not least because they are in different OSes.
I doubt that anyone smart enough to care about the difference is going to design a new OS from Carlos's casual definition and be confused into using the wrong method; I also doubt that anyone as dumb as I am is going to truly appreciate the subtle flavoring between the two and always use the write nomenclature. It's either running or not, and whether it's "swapped out" or "paged out" in the latter case is immaterial to the unwashed masses.
Happy Holidays
:-D
Exactly :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlogKDoACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UPzwCfWWW1GVkxi3PSGfzk7Bl1T+qf 0h8AnR8Ekrm5V8mWmL1g3InwMmCHNDcj =/5tJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org