[Benchmarking] potential caching issue ?

[Andrea Aime]

Adrian Custer ha scritto:
> On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 15:34 +0200, Andrea Aime wrote:
>> If the servers are actually caching the response or even just caching
>> the data in memory they are violating the bechmarking rules.
> 
> Except that that is, of course, what is happening when servers stop
> being 'disk bound'.

Not really. You still have to parse the bytes the OS has in memory
into geometries and attributes.
That's nothing compared to actually reading from disk, but can make
a significant difference in the non disk bound results.

Cheers
Andrea


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