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From: martin@euterpe.owl.de (Martin Husemann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ???
Date: 15 Aug 1994 23:02:52 +0200
Organization: The Other Site - Martin's Museum of Muses
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In <1994Aug15.034939.20997@cs.brown.edu> mhw@cs.brown.edu (Mark Weaver) writes:
>On Linux, while doing the same thing, there is hardly any disk
>activity at all.
Linux uses more (upto nearly all available phys.) memory for disk cache buffers.
NetBSD restricts this to a fraction of physical memory.
There are pro's and cons' for both strategies, but you would usualy prefer
the Linux way on personal workstations with only one concurrent user - you!
Martin
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