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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!world!news.bu.edu!mi 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 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3ulnt0$1am@news.bu.edu> References: <3ugj57$ih7@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3uhs9b$j9s@news.bu.edu> <3uldpp$dui@bell.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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 -- И пусть никто не уйдёт обиженным... -- Why is that 2 o'clock all the time?! -- It is a manometer!!!