On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Joseph Shraibman wrote:

> On a related note, what is the difference between "buffered" and
> "cached" memory?  I've noticed that with 2.4.0 there is barely any
> buffered.

Nowadays the buffers are purely used for buffering access to the block
devices (e.g. disks).  Pretty much everything else is now cached in the
page cache.

> How have other people been finding 2.4.0?  I've noticed that some things
> like resizing windows are much slower.

On most benchmarks I've seen, 2.4.0 is faster than 2.2.x.  I've been running
the test kernels for quite a while, and the VM tweaks that went in in the
last few before 2.4.0 improved interactive response quite a bit.

Scott


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