On Friday 09 June 2006 07:01 am, Harshal Vaidya wrote: > On 6/8/06, Steven Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi I use suse super and i experimented a bit and found out that > > using a flashdisk for a swap partition significantly improves > > performance. > > I'd imagine this is but natrual. You are replacing to a > superfast memory access (much like our good old RAM) for a slow > mechanical harddisk. I'm not really surprised with this.
Very "poor" (2~8MB/sec) write speeds. But read is 4MB/sec (12 MB in newer ones) sustained. seek time is "zero". -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
