Cray I/O (was: Re: What kinds of things)

[Michael J. Tighe]

In article <4623 at alvin.mcnc.org> spl at mcnc.org.UUCP (Steve Lamont) writes:
> One minor correction and then we can probably either move this topic
> elsewhere or give it a rest.  The instructions are variable length and
> may be either one or two "parcels" in length.
 
Well, let's not give it a rest until we get it completely correct. The
Y-MP, can have 1, 2, or 3 parcel instructions.
 
> As far as swap performance goes, I'll have to leave that to the
> performance junkies.
 
There are a variety of ways to increase swapping performance, but I
think the first is to use a portion of your SSD as the swap device.
This will probably give the single biggest increase in performance.
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