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From: mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Virtual Memory Question
Message-ID: <8054@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 26 May 89 17:48:31 GMT
References: <758@cf-cm.UUCP> <653@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> <31723@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Organization: Department of Media Services, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <31723@apple.Apple.COM> jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson) writes:
>
>  Actually, you don't have to have contiguious free disk space.  It will
>be able to use discontiguious disk space.

Does Apple's VM at least know how to take advantage of contiguous space,
and will Apple recommend that users provide contiguous space?  Having a
contiguous chunk of space for a virtual memory system to play in speeds
it up enormously.  When the Virtual program from Connectix creates its
virtual memory storage on disk, it grabs eight megs of contiguous space
and KEEPS it.  I hope Apple's will do the same.


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