Quoting <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006140023150.1255-100000 at fogarty.jakma.org>
by Paul Jakma <paul at clubi.ie>:
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, David Murphy wrote:
>> > > if dataset is far far greater than RAM, then trying to cache it is pretty
> > > futile... esp. if access to that dataset is non-obvious.
> >
> > Eh, I have squid on my machine, and it's not futile, even if the whole
> > web won't fit in it...
> >
>> grrr.. i'm talking about OS trying to cache blocks.
>> squid caching web pages is a different story.. it caches to disk
> aswell, but that doesn't matter as disk >> internet in speed..
Eh, RAM is faster than disk too.
8)
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