On 01/16 09:45 , Dan Pritts wrote: > > Accesses to disk will often end up being at least 2x as expensive; since > > assuming that swap is on the same disk as data, i think it could > potentially be more like 10x or 100x. it's not just the extra reads > and writes to and from the swap partition - it's also the extra seeks > back and forth. those are very expensive.
I'm sure 10x is not an unreasonable figure. I didn't want to go that far out on a limb tho. :) -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
