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>>I wonder if this ZERO chance is actually true, as far as I understand it,
>>sone of the caching controllers have pretty elaborate caching schemes
>>implemented on an onboard CPU, I suppose you assume that they only
>>implement a 'most recently accessed' caching scheme wich would justify
>>your ZERO change statement.
>>Any comments whether this is true, and perhaps any numbers to show how
>>efficient a disk controller cache is during 'normal' linux work???
>
>The point is if you're going to pay for memory, give the operating system
>the chance to use it in a flexible way, depending on its workload.
>Linux will use it intelligently.
>People who buy cached disk controllers and get all excited about the
>disk bench mark test don't seem to realise that all this exciting
>I/O is pointless when the extra memory may have avoided the need for
>an I/O in the first place, eg swapping................

I bought a cache controller....  the reason was that i upgraded my RAM to 
20MB and i had 4MB left over... so instead of sitting it on the shelf i 
put it in a cache controller.  I allocate a software cache of about 64k 
or so.

.t

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