Author Topic: PixInsight 1.8.3 Ripley: Enhanced Parallel Swap File Storage  (Read 20411 times)

Offline Louis Mamakos

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Re: PixInsight 1.8.3 Ripley: Enhanced Parallel Swap File Storage
« Reply #15 on: 2014 December 24 05:22:28 »
Just a stupid question, but if you've enough memory in your system for a tmpfs RAM disk, and you have a 64 bit user process environment, why bother to swap at all?  Even just copying the data to another chunk of RAM in a file system container is going to evict  all of your "hot" data from the CPU caches on that core and the common L3 cache.