Thread: [Stable!] FasterN9
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traysh is offline traysh
2013-04-27 , 19:22
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#1340
Originally Posted by Eztran View Post
FasterN9 uses caching (well, actually the N9 does anyway, but I think FasterN9 is more reliant on it now?) to speed things up. If you keep dropping it, you're gonna lose some of the performance.
This is almost right. FasterN9 just adjusts the filesytem cache size, which every linux have and which "drop cache" erases.

If the cache is cleared, every time you need to read a file (like photos, contact info, etc) it'll be read from the disk (flash memory, whatever), and that's really slow. The fact is cache is a good thing except if it causes running programs to be swapped out (slow too). So FasterN9 ajusts the cache size to a value that will won't cause programs to be swapped out.
 

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