steve-myers
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Over the years I've done Sieve of Eratosthenes for prime numbers. One time I did it on a 370/165. A little later we went to an IBM data center to try some of our applications on VS2 Release 1, otherwise known as SVS. My mouth watered (in a manner of speaking) at trying it with a really large sieve, so I took it along.
Our applications all seemed to run OK until I started my little program with a really large sieve. The machine immediately started doing I/O, so I canceled the job. I realized the I/O was paging; I don't recall how much real storage the machine had; I could get enough virtual storage for my sieve, but it was obvious I could not get enough real storage. Sigh. |
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