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From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Using Windows Swap space? Am I going mad?
Date: 20 Jul 1995 14:06:24 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Some time ago (20 Jul 1995 12:14:01 +0100) honorable Colman Reilly, 
residing at creilly@maths.tcd.ie wrote:

|How bad is the performance loss likely to be? Is it, as I suspect, 
|neglible when compared to the cost of going to disk anyway?

Never ran any benchmarks. Probably, significant, since swap partition
is designed to be a swap, and pager knows about it very well. Also, must
depend on you hard-drive. The sure thing is, that pager, according to
	pstat -s
is using both page swap-spaces, instead of using the fastest up to, say
90%, before touching the spare.

Will be nice to know the developers and/or gurus opinions on this.

Best regards!
	-mi 
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