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Re: Can you do hard drive caching? How?



Mark Phillips wrote:
> I run latex a lot and every time I run it, it has to load in library files
> from disk, which takes time.  I could try to buy a fast but expensive SCSI
> drive, but I thought probably a cheaper way would be to buy more memory
> and somehow use it to cache my existing hard drives -- ie stuff which is
> commonly read from the disk would be stored in memory.
> 
> Is there software in linux which will do this?

Yes. Install more memory and linux will do this automatically.

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see shy jo


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