On Mon, September 20, 2010 10:15 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: > TMPFS becomes more viable with swapcache too. We have two bulk > pkgsrc building boxes. More than two even, but two that I regularly > use. One has a swapcache SSD (Pkgbox64) and one does not (Avalon). > There is a gulf of difference in overall system performance between > the two. The system requirements would be much higher, even needing > more disk spindles for reasonable performance, without > TMPFS/swapcache.
That explains the noticable performance difference just logging in... I always just thought avalon was getting used for something else I didn't know about... Is there benchmarks around for swapcache? i.e. same hardware, same software task, with and without swapcache?
