When I say 'almost no documentation' I means every article I found
about /proc/meminfo do not describe difference between Cache and
Buffers.
For book link - thanks. I believe if nothing will be in it, thats means
something like 'linux console code'. I hope it not.
Thanks again.
В Вс.,
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 08:46:40PM EST, George Shuklin wrote:
Good day.
I'm trying to understand difference between Buffers and Page Cache in
Linux, but found almost no documentation.
Where ‘in Linux’..? What exactly are you looking at..?
As far as I understand buffers and Page Cache
a stored in Cached area?
And what difference between them?
If you know at least one article in kernels sources/Documentation
folder, or anywhere in Internet, I'll read it gladly.
I found nothing till this moment.
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On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:39:07PM EST, George Shuklin wrote:
I have started my post from sentence 'almost no documentation'.
Ok, I repeat my question in most simple form:
cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:8197852 kB
MemFree: 89764 kB
Buffers: 16436 kB
Cached:
In 4d58173b.7050...@gmail.com, George Shuklin wrote:
What data stored in Buffers area, and what data a stored in Cached area?
And what difference between them?
If you know at least one article in kernels sources/Documentation
folder, or anywhere in Internet, I'll read it gladly.
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Chris Jones wrote:
Well http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+meminfo gives 137,000 results.
Are you suggesting I do your research for you?
This is not an easy question to answer, a search won't help if the person
has no clue about the Linux VM.
This is a question for the
In 201102131521.18065@iguanasuicide.net, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Both types of memory are effectively free. Cache can be dropped
willy-nilly. Buffers can be reclaimed by waiting for their I/O to complete.
Both of these actions are done automatically by the kernel when
application
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 15:21 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In 4d58173b.7050...@gmail.com, George Shuklin wrote:
What data stored in Buffers area, and what data a stored in Cached area?
And what difference between them?
If you know at least one article in kernels sources/Documentation
George Shuklin put forth on 2/12/2011 7:46 PM:
Good day.
I'm trying to understand difference between Buffers and Page Cache in Linux,
but
found almost no documentation.
As far as I understand buffers and Page Cache serves same purpose: they save
recent reed/written pages and allow to
Good day.
I'm trying to understand difference between Buffers and Page Cache in
Linux, but found almost no documentation.
As far as I understand buffers and Page Cache serves same purpose: they
save recent reed/written pages and allow to reduce amount of actual IO.
So, the questions:
1)
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