Fair enough, but I want to know the key principles about how these are intended to be used. Or are you saying I should just read Stevens? The major point I too

Fair enough, but I want to know the key principles about how these are intended to be used. Or are you saying I should just read Stevens? The major point I took from the articles is that you should let the kernel manage what's in RAM -- it's going to do it anyway, so don't fight it -- and instead of building complicated paging and caching mechanisms, focus on laying out your data to take advantage of how the kernel already does it. What I want to know is, what are the other such major points? p.s. Good luck tomorrow :)