[THIN] Re: OT: Effect of Solid State drives
- From: "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:50:26 -0700
That begs the question if perhaps can actually setup WIN2K3 to run purely
from RAM and speed up all that caching and thrashing stuff!!
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Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Effect of Solid State drives
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> Aside from the OS support part, haven't we done this already
> with RAID controllers that have blocks of RAM on them? It
> always impresses me how much faster these controllers are
> then ones without RAM. Taking that solid state portion up to
> multiple gigabytes certainly would make a huge difference for
> disk bottlenecks.
>
> BTW- Why does Windows still depend so much on the hard drive
> when we are so much RAM available?? Tim, I think this
> question is for you J
Well I'll have a go at answering it - I would speculate, largely, that
it's because from the design stage it is a multi-purpose OS, that as
well as providing or catering for different types of workmix, always
*attempts* to be responsive for new processes. Hence, the pre-emptive
paging.
This was a reasonable change from OSs that only ever used virtual memory
when they'd run out of physical memory.
And it's (the OS) nature is such that it's not lent towards performance
customisation. By that I mean that in older times, when OSs were more
bespokely tuned to eek out the best performance, this required a
reasonable degree of expertise and knowledge. Whilst there may be some
tweaks and settings that can be applied to Windows servers, these days,
it's fundamental nature and behaviour is general purpose.
Neil
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