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- From: a74k110@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Chris Lloyd)
- Subject: Re: stripping (was Ramdisk coming for NeXT)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.145719.9180@nic.umass.edu>
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- References: <dillon.0mci@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> <15175@umd5.umd.edu> <dillon.0mmg@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 14:57:19 GMT
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- In article <dillon.0mmg@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
- >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.
- [...]
- > 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!
-
- Uh, I *REALLY* Don't think compress=lzw/packbits/etc. That would be totally
- retarded, not to mention totally unuseable on an '030 and damn near it on an
- '040. I would gather compressed = compacted in that the holes in the swapfile
- are reused more wisely and the paging system tries to keep the swapfile
- to a minimum ...
-
- This growing rumor is totally unfounded and technically silly IMNSHO.
-
- la la la,
- --
- :: Christopher Lloyd :: a74k110@titan.ucc.umass.edu :: Yrrid, Inc. ::
- ::"He said he'd make me elite for $5...I think he wanted a sub or somethin'"::
-