From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:02:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601091702.48955.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1136819748.9957.12.camel@mindpipe>
Am Montag, 9. Januar 2006 16:15 schrieb Lee Revell:
> On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 15:28 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Am Montag, 9. Januar 2006 15:18 schrieb Robert Hancock:
> > > Yaroslav Rastrigin wrote:
> > > > Well, I could find more or less reasonable explanation of this behaviour - different VM policies of two OSes and
> > > > strangely strong and persistent belief "Free RAM is a wasted RAM" among kernel devs. Free RAM is not a wasted RAM, its a memory waiting to be used !
> > > > Whenever it is needed by apps I'm launching or working with.
> > >
> > > There is no different VM policy here, Windows behaves quite similarly.
> > > It does not leave memory around unused, it uses it for disk cache.
> >
> > That doesn't mean that the rate of eviction is the same.
> > Is it possible that read-ahead is not aggressive enough?
>
> Enough for what? What is the exact problem you are trying to solve?
Quicker application startup.
Regards
Oliver
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2006-01-09 14:18 ` Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time Robert Hancock
2006-01-09 14:28 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-01-09 15:15 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-09 16:02 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2006-01-09 16:04 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-09 16:14 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-01-09 16:19 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-09 16:29 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-09 16:41 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-09 16:53 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-01-09 16:56 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-09 17:14 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-01-09 17:28 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-09 19:35 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-01-10 10:32 ` File type by extension is evil (was Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time) Bernhard R. Link
2006-01-10 20:28 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-09 17:14 ` Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-09 17:31 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-09 16:45 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-09 17:33 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-09 18:11 ` Marcin Dalecki
2006-01-09 17:45 ` Oliver Neukum
2006-01-09 16:59 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-10 1:44 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-01-10 4:30 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-10 10:13 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-01-10 10:34 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-10 23:48 Lukas Hejtmanek
2006-01-10 23:57 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-11 0:02 ` Lukas Hejtmanek
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-09 7:54 Boxer Gnome
2006-01-09 8:06 ` Erik Andersen
2006-01-09 8:21 ` Boxer Gnome
2006-01-09 8:53 ` Jim Crilly
2006-01-09 9:07 ` Yaroslav Rastrigin
2006-01-09 10:22 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-01-09 11:03 ` Yaroslav Rastrigin
2006-01-09 12:45 ` CaT
2006-01-09 13:34 ` Yaroslav Rastrigin
2006-01-10 13:29 ` Helge Hafting
2006-01-10 16:29 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-11 2:29 ` David Nicol
2006-01-11 2:56 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-12 18:53 ` David Nicol
2006-01-12 21:05 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-09 13:36 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-01-09 13:56 ` Yaroslav Rastrigin
2006-01-09 16:07 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-09 16:15 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-09 16:34 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-09 16:34 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-01-09 19:24 ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-09 19:33 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-09 13:54 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-09 14:32 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-09 15:22 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-09 19:07 ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-09 22:49 ` Dave Airlie
2006-01-10 12:00 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-09 13:56 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-10 7:13 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-10 7:33 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-10 8:33 ` D. Hazelton
2006-01-10 10:49 ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-10 13:26 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-11 4:57 ` D. Hazelton
2006-01-10 9:32 ` Yaroslav Rastrigin
2006-01-10 9:20 ` Yaroslav Rastrigin
2006-01-10 10:50 ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-09 16:32 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
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