Yep, a general rule of thumb I learned at college was that if you accessed a
byte of data from memory, and it took one second, it would take over a week
to do the same from disk!!
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From: Steve Philp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] crash tests....
Josh McCaffrey wrote:
> sometimes several seconds to do anything. If I have 60ns EDO RAM, what
> would disk swapping be comparable to?
Well, typical disk accesses are around 10ms is I remember correctly...
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