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Article #2376Re: *big iron*
From: Wm E Davidsen Jr
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1989 14:26
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1989 14:26
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In article <1186@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU>, pa1159@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU (pa1159) writes: | This brings up a point: in what processing regimes does total | sustained disk tranfer rate be the performance-limiting factor? On a Cray2, swapping! You can have programs using 2GB (yeah, that's GB) of *real* memory, and when you swap those suckers out... disk throughput is very important as program size gets larger. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: *big iron* Summary: Swapping Message-ID: <634@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 29 Sep 89 14:26:52 GMT References: <21962@cup.portal.com> <1989Sep12.031453.22947@wolves.uucp> <1186@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 13