Re: [OT] Re: ide drives performance issues, maybe related with buffer cache.

[John Newbie]

>   If you are really newbie in Linux - I can advice you to try FreeBSD.
>   By default FreeBSD (as of version 3.2) is much less aggressive in 
> caching and buffering. I never saw Linux greedy caching/buffering working 
> good - it always has some stupid edge cases when it is easier/faster to 
> power-off/power-on/fsck system, rather than to get to console and kill 
> offending process.
>   But sure - Linux's throughput is much higher that in *BSD.
>   Benchmarketing.
1.5+ year of Linux expirience, some app. programming, book by O'Reilly 
Understanding the Linux Kernel,
Linux  core kernel comment., simple module programming.

I do not want to switch to any kind of BSD. But behavior i've noticed 
sometimes is really annoying.

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