Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Mick Ghazey" <> | Date | Sun, 5 May 1996 13:22:17 +0000 | Subject | Re: [Linux-ISP] memory |
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On 4 May 96 at 12:47, Justin Dossey wrote:
> I heard that linux caches better than the hardware: > if one has a 256k pipeline-burst cache, and runs linux (of course, under > 64M of RAM), then it is faster than the same computer with a 512k > pipeline-burst cache... because Linux caches faster? Does anyone know if > this is true?
That's DISK cacheing not RAM. There's no way you can cache main memory in software. A hardware disk cache won't slow you down and it might speed things up.
Mick
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