J. Landman Gay wrote:
Can I safely assume that if I load a whole bunch of stacks into RAM,
that virtual memory will take care of memory usage for me?
Yes, but with two caveats:
1. Swap space is limited, and the OS uses it a lot. In most cases it'll
do what you need, but it's possible to meet limits.
2. Swap space is slow. If the foreground app dips into swap space the
user will encounter a noticeable performance hit. At best, things will
momentarily hang; at worst, it'll hang long enough to invoke the
spinning beach back for a few seconds until the swap is done.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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