Linux, gobs of RAM, RAID and performance suckage...

[Paul Lussier]

"Thomas Charron" <twaffle at gmail.com> writes:

> On 11/30/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> This is bizarre.
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>   Spare memory will ALWAYS be used to cache.  This is fine and 'normal'.

I was not implying that the use of spare memory as cache was bizarre.
I *know* that spare memory will be used this way, and that in general
this is a good thing.

What is bizaarre is that one could *INCREASE* system resources and
performance *GETS WORSE*. This is unintuitive and inverse to most
"normal" expectations, IOW, BIZARRE!

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Paul
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