On Sunday 12 June 2011 10:47:14 Anton Aylward wrote:
Yes, I understand about the page-cache, LRU and all that and "load on demand" nature of the file mapping of binaries.
But if that is so good why do we have ~/.cache and ... ~/.fonts.cache ~/.libreoffice/3-suse/user/store/.templdir.cache ~/.xdg_menu_cache ~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache ~/.mozilla/firefox/o7k1u7k5.default/extensions.cache ~/.java/deployment/cache Lots more under ~/.kde4/share/apps/
They solve a different kind of problem. Page caching means you don't have to read as much or as often from disk, and cache files like those mean you don't have to recalculate things every time. They are typically precalculated, pre- selected data, so it only has to be done once Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org