Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Feb 1998 13:14:07 -0500 (EST) | From | Emil Briggs <> | Subject | Re: New Feature Idea: Compress swap file |
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> This is an interesting concept, but I believe that a major factor in >swapping speed is hard drive seek times. I believe that the main delay in >writing data to disk is seek delay, and writing 1K instead of 4K won't affect >this. >
I don't know for certain but it sounds reasonable. Which brings to mind another question -- do the buffer flushing routines consider hard disk geometry when deciding which dirty buffers to write to disk and in what order to write them? (I'm not referring to swap specifically here).
Thanks Emil
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