Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: >On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, David Thompson wrote: > >> My concern about using ramdisks on linux is that AFAIK linux ram disks use >> physical (not virtual) memory. Thus, you partition your memory and prevent >> the OS from managing AFS cache usage vs. all the other memory demands. > >Yeah, but that's true anyway. The AFS memcache is allocated at >startup and uses a constant amount of memory. It also has a constant >chunk size, which means the same amount of total cache is used less >efficiently than a filesystem-based cache is.
These are exactly the reasons that I have not used either the mem cache or the ramdisk cache for our linux computers here. Too bad the tmpfs cache doesn't work (yet). Dave _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
