True, but Windows does cache files. It has been a couple of decades since I ran search on Windows, but Ultraseek got large gains from setting some sort of system property to make it act like a file server and give file caching equal priority with program caching.
wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Feb 22, 2021, at 9:22 AM, dmitri maziuk <dmitri.maz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2021-02-22 11:18 AM, Shawn Heisey wrote: > >> The OS automatically uses unallocated memory to cache data on the disk. >> Because memory is far faster than any disk, even SSD, it performs better. > > Depends on the os, from "defragmenting solrdata folder" I suspect the OP is > on windows whose filesystems and memory management does not always work the > way the Unix textbook says. > > Dima
