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Read-ahead buffer - Gospel for Techies

Read-ahead buffer - Gospel for Techies Hello friends, this is Win of Gospel for Techies our idea for today is about Read-Ahead or the read-ahead buffer. Some people are at a disadvantage because they do guesswork. Guesswork which could have been done more properly if they actually just took PRIOR time to read. Or Read-Ahead. Manuals are there, API documentations, examples, books, and all sorts of material or literature about some product, some process, some interface, some hardware, some abstraction, some design, some theory, or some other kind of thing... on the gospel side, the bible is our manual for user, it is the API of life for programmers, and the manpages for sysads, the protocol for network people, and the RFC or standard or spec for most other things. Reading ahead gives us advantage so we don't cram. Bible ideas are an advantage if they are in our cached memory compared to being back there in disk or in optical or worse in the