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Would you rather consume physical pages of RAM by storing less recently used programs and data, or by caching more recently used disk pages? Myself, I'd genera
by rosser 13y ago
Would you rather consume physical pages of RAM by storing less recently used programs and data, or by caching more recently used disk pages?
Myself, I'd generally prefer to evict the older stuff to swap in order to cache the newer stuff. But maybe that's just me.
- ableal 13y agoQuite a while ago, HP-UX (v9, if memory serves) got this balance wrong - the system was keeping files in RAM, and kicking active processes to swap. Much gnashing of teeth ensued until HP fixed that ...