George Shuklin put forth on 2/12/2011 7:46 PM: > Good day. > > I'm trying to understand difference between Buffers and Page Cache in Linux, > but > found almost no documentation. > > As far as I understand buffers and Page Cache serves same purpose: they save > recent reed/written pages and allow to reduce amount of actual IO.
Kernel docs are written for consumption by other kernel hackers, not lay people. Keep that in mind. I can get you the information you seek. Digesting it is up to you: http://linux-mm.org/LinuxMM http://www.phptr.com/content/images/0131453483/downloads/gorman_book.pdf The ebook is 700+ pages, about 8.5MB. The title is: "Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager" Curiously, why did you ask here instead of lkml? That should be every person's natural target for such a question. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d58e0aa.4000...@hardwarefreak.com
