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From: James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Was re: system uptime
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:04:14 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20150831T165909-785@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 55E4671E.5050604@gmail.com

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Ah, an old timer - I forgot that for a second there 

Both you guys are 'young whipper_snappers.....'


> Eventually I gave up trying to clarify that part, but sometimes (like
> now) the old habit comes back

Both of you have 'fuzzified' the key terms::
"Random vs Sequential" [1,2]. 

In SSD memory it's a hybrid, referred to as block access; so the issue is
still with us, just morphed.

hth,
James


[1]
http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8150/~/difference-between-sequential-and-random-access-operations


[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_access_memory



  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-31 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-30  4:04 [gentoo-user] system uptime Philip Webb
2015-08-30  4:22 ` Dale
2015-08-30  5:08   ` covici
2015-08-30  7:54     ` Dale
2015-08-30 12:20       ` Mick
2015-08-30 12:33         ` Dale
2015-08-30  6:52 ` Walter Dnes
2015-08-30  9:41 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-08-30 11:08   ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-30 13:24 ` Michel Catudal
2015-08-30 15:24   ` Daniel Frey
2015-08-30 15:54     ` Alan McKinnon
2015-08-30 16:03       ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-30 13:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-30 13:58   ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-30 14:21   ` Mick
2015-08-30 15:22   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2015-08-30 13:54 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2015-08-30 15:20 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2015-08-30 15:56 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-08-30 16:01   ` Alan McKinnon
2015-08-30 17:00     ` Dale
2015-08-30 17:05       ` Alan McKinnon
2015-08-30 17:26         ` Mick
2015-08-30 17:50           ` Dale
2015-08-31  8:50           ` Peter Humphrey
2015-08-31  9:42             ` Alan McKinnon
2015-08-31 13:41               ` [OT] Was " Peter Humphrey
2015-08-31 14:39                 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-08-31 15:04                   ` James [this message]
2015-09-01 14:19                   ` Peter Humphrey
2015-08-31 21:58                 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-08-30 16:06   ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-30 17:11   ` Michel Catudal
2015-08-30 17:56     ` Terry Z.
2015-09-03 15:32 ` Philip Webb
2015-09-03 17:25   ` Neil Bothwick
2015-09-03 18:12     ` Philip Webb

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