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- From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
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- Subject: Re: better vdisk
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.144041.15093@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 14:40:40 GMT
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- Jussi M Peltoniemi (jpeltoni@niksula.hut.fi) wrote:
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- : Is there better vdisk than the one that comes with os/2 2.0?
-
- : I mean vdisk that is swappable
-
- isn't this counter-productive. the whole idea of a vdisk is that the
- files are in memory and not on a (slow) disk. making it swapable will
- just chuck the files back out to disk.
-
- : I have 17 MB ram and if I make 10 MB vdisk my machine slows down quite
- : a bit with multiple big programs.
-
- have you tried using a big disk cache instead?
-
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