difference between page-swapping and disk-caching -- my bad terminology.
Anyway looks like there's no problem.
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Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: It's what's for dinner!
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> Jack Coates wrote:
>
> > This got me thinking -- does LRP have a disk cache? And if s
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> Jack Coates wrote:
>
> > This got me thinking -- does LRP have a disk cache? And if so, why?
> > Caching one hunk of system RAM in another is not sensible.
>
> Why not? As I understand HP-UX, "swap" involves swapping files to
> buffers in memory (fi
Jack Coates wrote:
> This got me thinking -- does LRP have a disk cache? And if so, why?
> Caching one hunk of system RAM in another is not sensible.
Why not? As I understand HP-UX, "swap" involves swapping files to
buffers in memory (first anyway) - so that ZERO swapping is normal. Of
course,
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Jack Coates wrote:
> Just thinking here, generally a bad idea... I've been reading the
> Postfix list lately, on which Linux is dissed for a couple of reasons:
>
> a) asynchronous flushing in ext2fs causes lost mail
>
> This is a good reason to diss, and I've been avoiding
