Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: memory | Date | Sun, 05 May 1996 20:12:13 +0200 | From | Alain Knaff <> |
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>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? > >Justin Dossey >dossey@flex.net houston, tx usa >http://www.flex.net/~dossey
Probably they meant that Linux' buffer cache is more efficient than _caching disk controllers_ . Which is true. However, you still need to have a decent amount of SRAM memory cache. Just don't put it on your IDE controller :)
Alain
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