Gee guys, I would have thought from my comment about interleaving swap on two disks in 4.x that it would be obvious that I understand it would be slower. And in fact, know quite a bit about virtual memory implementations. At the time, I tested interleaving 2 & 3 drives. The improvement with 3 was negligible at best and if the drives were not identical it was slower. But I got close to twice the paging speed on my 3/60 & 1+ using 2.
An SSD should be faster than a regular hard drive. I can justify $50-60 for a 128 GB SSD. I can't justify buying that much ECC DRAM for a once in a blue moon compute job. Having been a witness to the conflicts over adding virtual memory to Minix I find it ironic that the accepted practice now is to include virtual memory in the OS, but not use it. For a long time everyone used BSD because it had virtual memory and Sys V did not. Reg _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
