On 8/31/12 8:28 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
In practice, I've noticed minimal difference using SSDs on my desktop, which has 16G of RAM. I have lots of other stuff open, but all that only uses a couple of gigs of RAM, so there should certainly be 9G for page cache. (free -m reports about 7G used for buffers/cache.)
That's been my experience on a Linux desktop as well. Minimal win from an SSD compared to a 10k rpm spinny disk and lots of RAM.
On a Mac laptop, the situation is pretty different, for three reasons: 1) As Ehsan points out these were limited to 8GB until recently. 2) Laptop spinny disks are slower. 3) MacOS may not cache disk in RAM as much as Linux does; certainly Windows didn't use to. -Boris _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
