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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
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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