Re: A problem

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxx>]

"SHRIDHAR N. DAITHANKAR" <shridhar.daithankar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 
>   I am using Red Hat Linux 5.2 with Kernel 2.2. I can see that a lot of
> memory is been set aside as buffer & cache. On my machine it nearly puts 8
> MB in cache & 500 Kb in buffer. So the performance is really suffering.

You need to get a better understanding of the Linux memory
management. If your data and programs are found in the buffer cache or
page cache, you'll get good performance, because you don't have to go
to the disk to get them.

	-Arun

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