This means that any memory allocation or memory mapped read into memory is not actually performed when it’s executed. Linux works based on an allocation algorithm that most modern operating systems use, called “demand paging”. This holds true in a remarkable amount of general cases. This works great if processes or users perform small scale requests, and the operating system has a relative amount of cached pages/page cache available that is in line with the requests. For a write: the process will simply write to the cache.For a read: the process will try to find the requested pages in the cache, and if not found perform the disk IO requests and then place the pages in the cache.Buffered synchronous IOĪny normal synchronous IO operation that does not have special flags set when opening the file (descriptor) or doing a read or write will perform the following operations: It explores how the availability-or lack thereof-can influence the performance of so-called “buffered IO”. This blog goes into the details of how Linux deals with its memory and specifically its page cache. The “Buffers” memory area is a memory area that holds raw disk data, meant as an intermediate buffer between processes, the kernel, and disk. The linux page cache can be seen in /proc/meminfo with the statistic “Cached.”Ī common mistake is to consider the /proc/meminfo statistic “Buffers” as the Linux page cache. Instead, Linux uses all excess memory for its page cache. Linux does not have tunable parameters for reserving memory for caching disk pages (the page cache), like operating systems such as HPUX (dbc_min_pct, dbc_max_pct) or AIX (minperm%, maxperm%).
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This means it’s created to generally do what is right, instead of having specific code paths to perform what is right for a single specific task-and potentially be wrong for others. Linux is a general purpose operating system.
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