[ Friday, March 3, 2000 ] Karl Czajkowski wrote:
> > how much memory in the machine?
>
> 256 MB
> dual 550 MHz pentium III
>
> I did read other larger-than-memory files in between tests to try and
> avoid caching effects.
barely larger than memory doesn't count.
It's easily argued that 2x memory isn't even good enough either :)
3x is really about the time it gets safe. Sadly, this will remain the
case until we can avoid caching altogether, something I'm hoping (hey,
someone tell me if this is a pipe dream :) mmap/madvise can do for us.
James
