Re: RFC: design for new VM

[e-mail] wrote:
[snip]
>and of course VMS is not the
>last word by any means, but the system was very tunable, and had specific
>explicit mechanisms to attain many of the goals of vm system.

I'm not sure if I like tunables.  My feeling after playing around with 
VMS for a few years is that it's next to impossible to get all these 
tunables right.  Having a tunable usually means "we can't get this right
so we'll just blame the user (admin) for using bad values".  Of course
sometimes tunables are needed, but I'd like as few as possible, or they
should at least ble automatically managed unless the user sets them
explicitly.

   /Christer
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