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SubjectRe: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time
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Am Montag, 9. Januar 2006 15:18 schrieb Robert Hancock:
> Yaroslav Rastrigin wrote:
> > Well, I could find more or less reasonable explanation of this behaviour - different VM policies of two OSes and
> > strangely strong and persistent belief "Free RAM is a wasted RAM" among kernel devs. Free RAM is not a wasted RAM, its a memory waiting to be used !
> > Whenever it is needed by apps I'm launching or working with.
>
> There is no different VM policy here, Windows behaves quite similarly.
> It does not leave memory around unused, it uses it for disk cache.

That doesn't mean that the rate of eviction is the same.
Is it possible that read-ahead is not aggressive enough?

Regards
Oliver
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