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- From: tommy@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (Mike Thompson,332,54714,2734927)
- Subject: Re: Where to put swapfile (was What is the recommended size ...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.135640.15444@msc.cornell.edu>
- Originator: tommy@snoopy.msc.cornell.edu
- Sender: news@msc.cornell.edu
- Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
- References: <1gmsccINN6uq@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:56:40 GMT
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- From article <1gmsccINN6uq@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at>, by warmuth@warmuth.wu-wien.ac.at:
- > In <1992Dec15.204609.29849@msc.cornell.edu> tommy@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (Mike Thompson,332,54714,2734927) writes:
- >> ... (stuff deleted)...
- >> (3) Caching the OS/2 swapfile (HPFS) would be a waste of memory
- >> ... (stuff deleted)...
-
- > OS/2 *never* chaches the swapfile.
- > It is recomanded to put the swapfile on the most used partition on the
- > less used harddisk. So I wouldn't put it in it's own partition.
-
- I can understand putting it on the least used hard disk, but why the
- most used partition. The only justification is to keep the disk read
- heads near the actively used data. With any intelligent caching and
- ladder disk sub-system, actual conflicts on write to the disk should
- be rare to begin with. Then again, with 16 Mb of RAM, I don't worry
- about the SWAP file doing much thrashing. Even when testing
- development code, I don't think I keep 16 Mb of programs actively
- running.
-
- On second topic, how does OS/2 know it is the swapfile. The disk
- sub-systems have a file which happens to be named "swapper.dat". But
- to the driver, it's just a stupid file (I hope!). Any caching on the
- drive will also, to some degree, cache the swap file. Am I wrong?
-
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- Michael O. Thompson tommy@msc.cornell.edu
- Cornell University (607) 255-4714
-
- OS/2: For the few, the proud, the devoted!
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- Cornell University (607) 255-4714
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- OS/2: For the few, the proud, the devoted!
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