Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:36:40 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: mmap() versus read() |
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Hi!
> > Why does Linux page executables from their original location? Isn't > > that slower than putting it into the swapfile because you have to > > wade through the filesystem layer when you need to page in? Or is > > the penalty for writing it into the swap bigger than the filesystem > > overhead? > > Yes.
:-)
Ok. Is there easy way to change it? On my system, swap is order of magnitude faster than disk. I would like linux to take advantage of it. Pavel
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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