System Hard Drive RPMs
"Laurence Payne" NOSPAMlpayne1ATdsl.pipex.com wrote in message
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:48:00 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:
That would be the effective transfer rate. One way to shoot transfer rate
in
the foot is to have a second independent process that is putting seeks on
the drive. If your system has only 1 drive and is swapping heavily while
you are recording, then you are cruising for a bruising.
But why on Earth WOULD it be "swapping heavily" (whatever that means?)
Sure, you can sabotage any recording by running another disk-intensive
process behind it. Which is why you don't :-)
Page swaps is one good source of background writes, and you can have a lot
of swap activity well before you out of physical memory (at least on
windows, don't know about mac).
Sean
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