Graham Anderson said the following on 06/02/2010 12:09 AM:
On Tuesday 01 June 2010 13:53:30 Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
Really? I've seen demonstrations of that and not been impressed. You could get, IMNSHO, a bigger performance boost by spending that same amount of money on a lot more RAM.
This is not really true at all, not for anyone that already has enough RAM to avoid excessive swapping. You could have 64GB of RAM and your apps and boot will not be any faster because your still blocked on the bottleneck of your mechanical drives.
Yes, it is true. You've done a switcheroo. You've focussed solely on booting. Swapping isn't only the reason to hit the disk. Starting new applications requires searching the directory trees and inodes, paging in blocks that weren't already in memory. Ditto opening files. Having more memory means these too can be 'cached' - or at least not paged out ONCE THEY ARE READ IN. As for booting ... how many times a year do you boot your server farm? I realise - and have stated - things are different for laptops (netbooks, slates, pads, smartphones). As I keep saying, Context Is Everything. Don't presume your context is the only one. -- `But that's ... completely ridiculous! ... [Y]ou could claim that *anything's* real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's *proved* it doesn't exist!' `Yes, you could,' said Xenophilius. `I am glad to see that you are opening your mind a little.' - `Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', J. K. Rowling -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org