In <[email protected]>, on 03/24/2011
at 02:04 PM, Dave Roeser <[email protected]> said:
>Anyway, he wishes to know if this is an "in-storage" sort or is it to
> use external media?
What's the working set? If the data are larger than the working set
then he will see paging, and will need to analyze the tradeoffs
between paging I/O and explicit I/O to external media. He might need
to tweak his reference pattern to get good performance.
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