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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:20:16 -0800
From: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
To: Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream...
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On 1/22/06, Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com> wrote:
> Just as a curiosity... does anyone have any guesses as to the runtime
> performance cost of hosting one or more swap files (which thanks to on demand
> creation and growth are presumably built of blocks scattered around the disk)
> versus having one or more simple contiguous swap partitions?
>
> I think it's probably a given that swap partitions are better; I'm just
> curious how much better they might actually be.

If you google "mac os x swap partition", you'll find benchmarks from
several years ago. (Although, those benchmarks are with a partition
dedicated to the dynamically created swap files. It does more or less
ensure that the files are contiguous though.) Mac OS X was *much* more
of a dog back then, in terms of performance, so I don't know how
relevant those benchmarks are nowadays, but it might be a starting
point for answering your question.

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-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>
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