Re: How to optimize use of RAM/disk access ?

[reinert <reinkor@gmail.com>]

Obs, you mean to try to use an external disk for swap space? (I use linux, Debian). See if I can spend some days on hacking :-)

reinert

On Friday, February 16, 2018 at 9:18:29 AM UTC+1, björn lundin wrote:
> On 2018-02-16 06:04, reinert wrote:
> 
> >My program is mush slower on my laptop than on my desktop.
> >So optimization for a laptop seems to be somehow different as compared to a desktop.
> 
> Or that is just because laptops usually have slower disks.
> 10-15 years ago or so an ordinary laptop would have an 4200 rpm IDE
> disk, while a desktop would spin at 5400 rpm or even 7200 rpm.
> And servers would have scsi disks at 10000 or 15000 rpms.
> 
> But now - a large amount of laptops have SSDs instead. And some are
> faster some are slower.
> 
> So dividing into laptop/desktop for general disk access optimisation
> seems strange to me.
> 
> If you run your tests on an external drive and compare the output
> from both laptops and desktops - is there a difference?
> 
> 
> 
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> Björn