Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0 | From | John Fremlin <> | Date | 28 Jun 2001 23:47:53 +0100 |
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> immediate: RAM, on-chip cache, etc. > fast: Flash reads, ROMs, etc. > medium: Hard drives, CD-ROMs, 100Mb ethernet, etc. > slow: Flash writes, floppy disks, CD-WR burners > packeted: Reads/write should be in as large a packet as possible > > Embedded Case
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> Desktop Case
I'm not sure there's any point in separating the cases like this. The complex part of the VM is the caching part => to be a good cache you must take into account the speed of accesses to the cached medium, including warm up times for sleepy drives etc.
It would be really cool if the VM could do that, so e.g. in the ideal world you could connect up a slow harddrive and have its contents cached as swap on your fast harddrive(!) (not a new idea btw and already implemented elsewhere). I.e. from the point of view of the VM a computer is just a group of data storage units and it's allowed to use up certain parts of each one to do stuff
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