Re: [Gaim-devel] Resolving IP addresses in Gaim

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Richard Laager spake unto us the following wisdom:
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 12:46 -0500, Mark Doliner wrote:
> > Memory faults... like, hardware problems or OS bugs?
>=20
> I believe he means page faults...
>=20
> I'm I'm understanding this correctly, the argument is: If Gaim had to
> page something in for something other than the DNS lookup, the DNS
> lookup code could continue to run if it was in a separate process.

This is really not relevant.  Besides, if there is enough memory
pressure to page out an active portion of one process, it's just as
likely that the active portion of another process could be paged out.

Ethan

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