Re: moving buffers/caching from RAM to SSD

[Nemeth Gyorgy <friczy@freemail.hu>]

2013-12-31 14:54 keltezéssel, Muhammad Yousuf Khan írta:
> i dont know why i am saying is even practical or not.
> 
> here is my free command
> 
> @thor:# free -g
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:            31         31          0          0          0         26
> -/+ buffers/cache:          3         27
> Swap:           93          0         93
> 
> 
> as you can see 27GB is being used in caching. i have few 160GB SSDs.
> can i move this buffers/caching load to my SSD. so that things could
> work more better.

You shouldn't do it. Unused RAM is waste of RAM, and the memory is still
faster than the SSD, so if you manage to use the SSD for buffer instead
of RAM (which I don't think you can) your performance would be worse.


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