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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Inner workings of merged VM/buffer cache system
Date: 4 Aug 1995 01:41:02 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <3vqns5$258@solaria.cc.gatech.edu>, Byron A Jeff <byron@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> One thought: implement something like a swap buffer cache. [...]
Hmmmmm... is this how FreeBSD's merged VM/buffer cache system
works? It cut my kernel build times in half moving from pre-2.0 to
post-2.0...
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org