Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1165 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 26 November 2006 14:01, Robert Schiele wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 01:13:45PM +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > I can't say why it should be slower, but since it shouldn't be used at
> > all, it doesn't seem to matter much
>
> That depends on your point of view.  From a user's point of view this is
> really pointless because it does not make any sense at all to use such a
> scenario on any productive system.  For the developer of the code such
> observations could be quite valuable because the process of finding an
> explanation for such strange observations often uncover obscure bugs or
> design issues.

It could be as simple as the RAM disk taking up memory that would otherwise be 
used for buffering. Reducing the size of the buffers can cause substantial 
performance loss

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