On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Corey McGuire wrote: >And its not like gobs of free RAM is useless in the Linux world. Unlike >windows, Linux keeps it RAM filled with cache until free RAM is needed (I >have disk intensive windows apps that run far faster under WINE than >Windows. I love bragging about them ;-) "Unlike windows"? Do you even *use* windows? Windows has had the same filesystem caching capability as linux for many years now. Linux is a lot more lax about what it'll keep in memory -- basically, cache pages will not be pushed out until something needs the memory (application or another cache page.) Windows limits the ammount of cached space and tends to dump things a great deal faster... Everyone loves to poopoo on windows without even looking. Both do caching. Linux tends to do it much better -- esp. under load; copy a file 2x the size of RAM on both and you'll see what I mean. --Ricky - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
