[plug] Install

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.smileys.net
Mon Mar 29 11:01:01 WST 1999


david.buddrige at mitswa.com.au wrote:
> > Ummm... <dig><scruffle><toss>... Here's a 250M (unknown health) and
> > another 40M (works, but I don't know how useful that will be)... from
> > the Quakeathon, on (oops!) NOW at GW, else what suburb are you in?

> I find that 40m disks make excellent swap partition disks... becase they're
> not on the same physical device as the one with your data, accesses to
> virtual memory do not take as long (since they can actually happen in
> parallel)... my $0.02 anyway... 8-)

OTOH, 40M drives are usually _very_ slow.

-- 
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 -- libg++-2.7.1 configuration script


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