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Sure there is, APC. But that aside, Linux won't read that file every time, it will end up living in the disk buffers that it maintains.
by Kudos 16y ago
Sure there is, APC. But that aside, Linux won't read that file every time, it will end up living in the disk buffers that it maintains.
- moe 16y agoThe disk buffers make the operation cheap but not free, i.e. keeping the information cached is the right thing to do.