Scott Murray wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Joseph Shraibman wrote:
>
> > On a related note, what is the difference between "buffered" and
> > "cached" memory? I've noticed that with 2.4.0 there is barely any
> > buffered.
>
> Nowadays the buffers are purely used for buffering access to the block
> devices (e.g. disks). Pretty much everything else is now cached in the
> page cache.
That still doesn't answer my question. If everything is treated as a
file, what is the difference between buffer and cache?
>
> > How have other people been finding 2.4.0? I've noticed that some things
> > like resizing windows are much slower.
>
> On most benchmarks I've seen, 2.4.0 is faster than 2.2.x. I've been running
> the test kernels for quite a while, and the VM tweaks that went in in the
> last few before 2.4.0 improved interactive response quite a bit.
Some things do seem quicker to me, but some things slower. I notice
that my system suddenly starts taking up a lot of cpu time in the system
area that can run on for 30 seconds.
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