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wtallis
10 months ago
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Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads w...
The DRAM on a SSD like that isn't for caching user data, it's for caching the drive's metadata about which logical blocks (as seen by the OS) correspond to which physical locations in the flash memory.
LtdJorge
10 months ago
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It definitely uses it for caching data
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