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- From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: stripping (was Ramdisk coming for NeXT)
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- Message-ID: <dillon.0mmg@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- References: <1992Aug23.051823.1291@ni.umd.edu> <1992Aug25.152745.21635@menudo.uh.edu> <dillon.0mci@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> <15175@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 08:04:35 PST
- Organization: Not an Organization
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- In article <15175@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:
- >In article <dillon.0mci@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
- >> Sounds like one huge bandaid to me.... compressed???? Are they out of
- >> their mind? It's *already* too slow!
- >
- >Compare the speed of the '040 in compressing to the speed of a typical hard
- >disk.
-
- We need that processor to run applications, when the processor is
- spending it's time compressing data it is most definitely NOT running
- those applications!
-
- The speed of the hard disk does not effect processor utilization, you
- simply setup the SCSI DMA transfer and go back to running other
- processes.
-
- So we are going from maybe 5% processor overhead to 30% procesor
- overhead per page (total guesses on my part).
-
- That is NOT acceptable! NeXT should *FIX* the stupid paging problem,
- not add a cold compress (:-)) to an open sore!
-
- >> -Matt
- >------
- >Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
- >------
- >"Calvin Coolidge looks as if he had been weaned on a pickle."
- > -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
- >
- >
-
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