Messages in this thread | | | From | Robin Rosenberg <> | Subject | Re: why swap at all? | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 2004 14:27:33 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 01 June 2004 13.57, Lenar Lõhmus wrote: > jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu wrote: > >I'm not sure. Copying a file is a pretty good indication that you > >are about to do something with either the new or the old file. > > Like taking the new file with me on USB dongle and deleting old one? > Caching the file really doesn't help in this case.
No, and most file copies are not to be used in the "near" future. I.e. on my machine. Caching on the second read (close in time) is ok, or if there are unused ram, but paging out things in use is bad. It's much more likely that the page allocated to a program will be used than a newly read or written file.
Ofcourse your milega may vary. I'm thinking of my desktop now.
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