Re: New Feature Idea: Compress swap file

Emil Briggs (briggs@bucky.physics.ncsu.edu)
Sun, 22 Feb 1998 13:14:07 -0500 (EST)

> This is an interesting concept, but I believe that a major factor in
>swapping speed is hard drive seek times. I believe that the main delay in
>writing data to disk is seek delay, and writing 1K instead of 4K won't affect
>this.
>

I don't know for certain but it sounds reasonable. Which brings to mind
another question -- do the buffer flushing routines consider hard disk
geometry when deciding which dirty buffers to write to disk and in what
order to write them? (I'm not referring to swap specifically here).

Thanks
Emil

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