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From: kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl
Subject: Re: how to control paging...
To: gapa83 AT udcf DOT gla DOT ac DOT uk (Paul Harness)
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 13:12:48 +0100 (MET)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP users list)

> 
> > Paging is LRU in go32.  The memory you use most often will tend to
> > remain unpaged, while that which you use less often will tend to get
> > paged.  At least, it's supposed to work this way.
> > 
> Forgive me, but ...... What's `LRU' ? 

The Least Recently Used (=LRU) page is swapped out (to disk).
See e.g. "Design of Operating Systems" by Andrew Tanenbaum.

Pieter Kunst (kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl)

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