Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Feb 2007 19:29 UTC
Jeff Atwood explains why Vista uses so much memory. "You have to stop thinking of system memory as a resource and start thinking of it as a a cache. Just like the level 1 and level 2 cache on your CPU, system memory is yet another type of high-speed cache that sits between your computer and the disk drive. And the most important rule of cache design is that empty cache memory is wasted cache memory. Empty cache isn't doing you any good. It's expensive, high-speed memory sucking down power for zero benefit. The primary mission in the life of every cache is to populate itself as quickly as possible with the data that's most likely to be needed - and to consistently deliver a high 'hit rate' of needed data retrieved from the cache."
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2005-07-10
Wow did you totally miss the point. I never said Linux didn't have a disk cache, in fact if you actually read the article it was talking about the SuperFetch technology that tries to minimize disk cache.
And that is what I was referring to the actual process that minimizes the use of disk cache. But in order to understand the comments I made on the article you actually have to read the article.
And the very fact that you had to insert the words disk cache, to go off on a tangent about a sentence you took out of context. Shows me you had no intention of actually arguing the point of the article.
Edited 2007-02-28 22:57