Re: log-buf-len dynamic

[Jörn Engel]

On Wed, 24 September 2003 14:09:38 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> It isnt just sizes. As the size has risen rapidly the disk data rates
> have increased pretty well (factor of about 100 over an MFM disk 386)
> but the seek time has shifted by a factor of 10. This has a huge impact
> on the whole basic theory of things like paging in applications versus
> doing a streaming preload of the code/data.
> 
> It also has a big impact on how swap is managed - it is pretty much as
> cheap now to swap out 2Mb as 4K

How do you get to 2MB?  My rule of thumb number is still 100kB.

Jörn

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