I hate swap files.However i can't force WindowsXP to force not to use one.The sneaky bitch creates one whenever she wants.
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Anonymous2008-12-24 3:45
put it on ramdisk.
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Anonymous2008-12-24 3:50
wat?
why would you hate swapping?
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Anonymous2008-12-24 3:52
Without swapping:
program don't halt for 10 seconds for files to finish written to swap and back.With annoying hard drive noise.
With swapping:
the above happens.
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Anonymous2008-12-24 3:52
Uh... swap files are pretty much necessary for 32-bit processors.
Install Linux,Problem Solved.
Linux has ports of all the software you need.
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Anonymous2008-12-24 4:12
The sickening thing about swap is that your kernel would rather keep a copy of that 1GB file you just finished parsing/downloading/backing up than the program memory you're using all day. Fine, everything is a file, but everything is NOT FUCKING MEMORY. Oh, and the part where swapping out a program involves shredding it into confetti and sprinkling it to random corners of the swap file so it takes 3000 seek operations to recover. And recovery is only attempted on a page-by-page basis. While actual files are pretty much contiguous and have read-ahead optimization but VM still considers them the same priority ugh rawarrrrr.
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Anonymous2008-12-24 4:17
I can't wait for cheap SSD.This madness will end.
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Anonymous2008-12-24 4:19
swapping to ramdisk will improve performance.
Its are a FACT.
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Anonymous2008-12-24 4:25
" It's an intriguing idea because some RAM operations are literally about a million times faster (that's six orders of magnitude) than a hard drive's. Therefore, any operations you can keep in RAM will typically complete much, much faster than those that involve reads/writes using a mechanical hard drive."
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Anonymous2008-12-24 5:41
Its amazing how little free ramdisk software there is for XP.
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Anonymous2008-12-24 5:50
>>11
What, so the swap file can thrash the disk and eventually destroy it with excessive superfluous write cycles?
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Anonymous2008-12-24 5:54
>>15
ENTERPRISE QUALITY SSDS CAN HANDLE OVER 1 MILLION WRITE CYCLES.ORDER NOW.
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Anonymous2008-12-24 6:05
>>16
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