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On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Marty Leisner wrote: > > > Any hard numbers on cpu time versus disk wait? Also how much > > compression will be achieved... > > Disk transfer time is absolutely minimal, especially when > compared to disk seek time... > And disk seek time isn't at all affected by swap compression. > If you want swap performance, clustering and read-ahead are > the way to go. it is affecting seek times .. a 2-times compression thing means the size of the swap area is halved as well, thus average seeks are halved as well. (if you use a separate swap device and swap fragmentation isnt too high, ie. the swap set is a ~1.0 dimensional fractal ;) -- mingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu | ||||||||||||
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