SS1+ Swap Timings

[John Kastler]

We have several SS1+'s running SunOS 4.1. These SS1+'s came with the OS
already set up.  They have a swap partition and they also swap to a file.
We want to make the swap partition larger and make the /var partition
smaller, we'll take the swap file out.  I realize that swapping to a disk
should be faster than swapping to a file but I am not sure how much faster
it is.  I would like to know if anyone has timings for swapping to a disk
partition and swapping to a file?  Does anyone have a program to do the
timings that they would be willing to share?

Please e-mail responses and I will post a summary if there is 
sufficient interest.

Thanks in advance.

John F. Kastler
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
at Syracuse University
111 College Place  Rm 3-201
Syracuse, New York  13244
john at nova.npac.syr.edu