Well, before adding 1Gb of ram, I had 384Mb. Adding more RAM didnt affect the 
performance at all :\

Eran.

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 17:24, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 04:41:05PM +0300, Eran Rundstein wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > Wont this result in a greater loss of data, in case a powerbreak occurs?
> > What exactly is the kernel caching? Files?
>
> Some real-life examples:
>
> 1. Try running:
>
>   find / -name no_such_file 2>/dev/null
>   find / -name no_such_file 2>/dev/null
>
> The first run will probably take noticable time  period. The second will
> end immediately. This is because all the relevant directory inodes will
> be in cached in your memory.
>
> 2. ditto for 'grep shouldnt_be_there /var/log/messages' (for a large
> messages file).
>
> 3. Mount a floppy. Make sure it is empty. Copy a large enough file into
> it (at least 1MB). This will take some time. Then read this file from
> the floppy. The read "from the floppy" will end immidietly.
>
>
> I'm sure you can easily come up with examples of very noticable caching.


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