Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932257AbWAIOSt (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:18:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932294AbWAIOSt (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:18:49 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:45813 "EHLO pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932257AbWAIOSs (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:18:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 08:18:26 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time In-reply-to: <5t5JU-7Sn-11@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <43C270B2.4050305@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <5t06S-7nB-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <5t34G-3Zu-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <5t5pU-7tD-37@gated-at.bofh.it> <5t5JU-7Sn-11@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 885 Lines: 18 Yaroslav Rastrigin wrote: > Well, I could find more or less reasonable explanation of this behaviour - different VM policies of two OSes and > strangely strong and persistent belief "Free RAM is a wasted RAM" among kernel devs. Free RAM is not a wasted RAM, its a memory waiting to be used ! > Whenever it is needed by apps I'm launching or working with. There is no different VM policy here, Windows behaves quite similarly. It does not leave memory around unused, it uses it for disk cache. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/