10 Jun
2006
10 Jun
'06
10:09 a.m.
On Friday 09 June 2006 07:01 am, Harshal Vaidya wrote:
On 6/8/06, Steven Joseph stevenjose@gmail.com wrote:
Hi I use suse super and i experimented a bit and found out that using a flashdisk for a swap partition significantly improves performance.
I'd imagine this is but natrual. You are replacing to asuperfast memory access (much like our good old RAM) for a slow mechanical harddisk. I'm not really surprised with this.
Very "poor" (2~8MB/sec) write speeds. But read is 4MB/sec (12 MB in newer ones) sustained. seek time is "zero".
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