On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> John,
>
> Thats kind of what I thought. I wasn't even sure if my question was even
> intelligent in Linux. I know that in the old school days of OS/2 and even
> Windows 95 it was a good idea to hack away at a config file or two to control
> how much physical RAM was being used as a disk cache. Perhaps this ideology
> was intended more for RAM-contrained systems rather than maintaining optimum
> system performance.
>
Yep. I do believe that back in the "good old days" when you
had (if you were lucky) 8 megs of RAM, you had to be VERY
careful about how much ram was being used for disk caching.
Even in Windows 3.1x it was important. These days, it's not
that important. :-)
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
You're quite welcome. :-)
John
