Except that, even if it caches the wrong thing, all it does is deleting the unused data from RAM and then loading the desired data from disk. No writing to hard disk involved there. Also, in my experience, it rarely guesses wrong, since my usage patterns (i.e. which programs I load every time I log on) are somewhat consistent over time.
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Except that, even if it caches the wrong thing, all it does is deleting the unused data from RAM and then loading the desired data from disk. No writing to hard disk involved there. Also, in my experience, it rarely guesses wrong, since my usage patterns (i.e. which programs I load every time I log on) are somewhat consistent over time.
As someone who grew up in that place, I totally agree.