Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 13:18:01 +1000 (EST) From: HMG coA reductase <s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Disk cache? Message-ID: <199605090318.NAA07965@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU>
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g'day all, i am wondering if FreeBSD implements something analogous to MS-DOS' SmartDrive, viz a disk cache to speed up access. i noticed that if i do say a "man ifconfig" (or man whatever) consecutively, even with no other users around, it takes almost the same amount of time to bring the screen up. Is swap used for such a purpose as cacheing? ivan
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