In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Flemming Frandsen writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>>Varnish caches objects into *memory* and not disk right? >> >> No, varnish caches objects into "virtual memory" which means that >> RAM acts as a cache for the disk. > >I guess the interesting detail is how eager the kernel is to write the >mapped memory to disk. > >It would be a shame to spend time and IO bandwidth to write a 1G cache >out to disk if the box has 4G of RAM and would never need the RAM for >anything other than the cache, woudn't it?
The kernels I know of can be described as distinctively reluctant to write things out. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
