[Sunhelp] X Window System

[James Lockwood]

On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Wes Hofmann wrote:

> I know this question is most probably stupid, but what is priority paging
> and how would I go about enabling it?

http://www.sun.com/sun-on-net/performance/priority_paging.html

Basically, you need Solaris 7 or 2.6 with at least kernel patch 105181-09.
You add the line "set priority_paging=1" in /etc/system and reboot.
Priority paging changes the paging strategy to free data before executable
code when memory gets tight.  This means that file i/o buffers won't push
running programs out of memory, a chief cause of unresponsive behaviour in
small machines.

-James