Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Hard drive speeds
Message-ID: <1989Aug28.050055.28526@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <17640@ut-emx.UUCP> <16567@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <6987@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 89 05:00:55 GMT

In article <6987@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> jc%andataco.uucp@ucsd.edu (John Cornelius) writes:
>Swap devices should have the highest possible transfer rate since they're
>mostly sequential devices...

Somebody's been reading old papers... Very few modern Unixes swap.  Paging
requests resemble filesystem accesses more:  relatively small transfers
(8KB or so, often) in quasi-random places.
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