[Gllug] Re: Memory usage

[Nix]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, the entity known as Peter Grandi,
Piercarlo Grandi, and under other names, mused:
>>> http://WWW.sabi.co.UK/Notes/anno05-4th.html#051010
>>> 
>>> and a 'tar' of the partition became seven times faster, and
>>> interactive usage feel rather snappier.
> 
> nix> The latter is peculiar, 'cos unless /usr is on your root
> nix> filesystem, most of the references to things on your root
> nix> filesystem will be for things like /bin/ls and libc, which
> nix> are so heavily referenced they should be pretty much
> nix> entirely resident in the page cache.
> 
> Such clueless speculation might be avoided by the simple device
> of reading the notes in the link above.

I started, but I'm afraid the verbosity drove me away within seconds.

In any case, it's nothing but pontification; no evidence. It doesn't say
anything which might help to determine why that case was faster.

> And no thanks for assuming willy nilly that I am similarly
> clueless and I would test filesystem reading speed in a warm
> state, despite the very explicit statement to the contrary in
> the link above.

The link above has so much crap in it that without being paid or
explicit personal interest there's no way I'd burn time reading it.
It's even more boringly written than the works of Codd, but
probably substantially less useful.

>           probably more informedly discussed

*plonk*

FOAD, again, prolix crackpot. (This makes either the third or fourth
time I've killfiled you. One might think you're intentionally evading
killfiles...)

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