Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #4072, comment 4


Ignore:
Timestamp:
Jun 8, 2017, 2:33:09 PM (7 years ago)
Author:
elexis

Legend:

Unmodified
Added
Removed
Modified

  • Ticket #4072, comment 4

    initial v1  
    1 
     1{{{
    2220:14 < Philip> The OS has a buffer cache, where it tries to use all your free RAM to cache parts of the hard disk
    3320:14 < Philip> (The hard disk's own cache is irrelevant)
    … …  
    111120:19 < Philip> The game's 'file' caching is at a higher level - it caches the files after they've been read out of the zip (and decompressed, if necessary)
    121220:20 < Philip> The OS's caching is at a lower level, it just caches ~4KB pages that can be in the middle of a file or can be filesystem metadata etc
    13 
     13}}}
    1414
    1515For windows: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windows/desktop/aa364218(v=vs.85).aspx