> On Wednesday 16 November 2011 at 06:04 Dmitry Yemanov wrote: > >> Also, some >> Windows versions are suspected in giving the file system cache too high >> priority thus possibly swapping out the pages of the process working >> set, so a largish internal page cache could prove itself to be a bad >> idea in this case. >> > > Do you know which windows versions?
Various resources talk about Windows 2008 Server x64, in particular the pre R2 version. Also see: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2007/11/27/too-much-cache.aspx and http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2009/02/06/microsoft-windows-dynamic-cache-service.aspx Regards Thomas > Everytime I look at the effect of the effect of file system cache under > Windows I get confused. My most recent study, with W2K3 x64 indicated that > using the file system cache was a big win compared to physically disabling it > in fb.conf and using firebird to do all the caching. > > It was not the result I expected but I hadn't considered that the results may > depend on different versions of Windows. (There are probably other things I > hadn't considered, too :-( ). > > > Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
