| | So the question comes up, "What's the difference between buffers and cache?"
Here's probably the simpliest, most direct answer you're gonna get:
Cache
is typically used to store oftenly used files, they are stored there
just because there is some free RAM that can used (because RAM is much
faster than reading from the disk).
Buffers
are used by by various processes as a temporarily storage area.
Here, input and output can be stored until the process is ready to
handle it.
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| | Posted 12/21/2005 3:17 AM - 4 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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