On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 22:40:23 +0100
Arnould Nazarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> > This is the bright side of slaving, if a file  has been opened and read, then 
>these blocks are in ram, then 2nd access is very fast. But the 1st time it's terrible 
>slow on machines with lots of mem.  
> 
> And files already opened once are faster to load again?
> That was the original intention. But why does Phoebus write that the
> performance drops when the slave blocks are used?
> 
> I think this is too complicated for me.

Neither I understand. Maybe this happens if slave blocks are used very frequently and 
mixed with lots of files?
But have never saw this. Phoebus, when did you experience this?
 
> Arnould
> 


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