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By popular demand! The following "Gospel of Caching According to Max" is
provided by Proportional Software based upon a great deal of OS/2 system
"tweeking" done by the DCF/2 development team.
You can get better performance from your system by using the memory you have
available to you in the most efficient and effective way.
From the table below, select the case that best describes the file system or
systems you use and memory available on your system.
CASE 1: You use
only HPFS or only
FAT but not both. HPFS only FAT only
If system memory is at least: Set CACHE: to Set DISKCACHE: to
16 MB 2048 2048
12 MB 1536 1536
8 MB 1024 1024
Set FAT DISKCACHE
Parameters:
LAZY WRITES N/A LW
Set HPFS CACHE
Parameters:
LAZY WRITES /LAZY:ON N/A
MAXAGE >7,500 N/A
DISKIDLE 60,000 N/A
BUFFERIDLE 60,000 N/A
If your system is HPFS only REM out the DISKCACHE statement in your CONFIG.SYS
file. If your system is FAT only, REM out the IFS=HPFS.IFS statement.
CASE 2: You use
both HPFS and FAT
with HPFS active FAT passive
If system memory is at least: Set CACHE: to Set DISKCACHE: to
16 MB 2048 512 -1024
12 MB 1536 256 - 512
8 MB 1024 128 - 256
Set FAT DISKCACHE
Parameters:
LAZY WRITES N/A LW
Set HPFS CACHE
Parameters:
LAZY WRITES /LAZY:ON N/A
MAXAGE >7,500 N/A
DISKIDLE 60,000 N/A
BUFFERIDLE 60,000 N/A
CASE 3: You use
both HPFS and FAT
with HPFS passive FAT active
If system memory is at least: Set CACHE: to Set DISKCACHE: to
16 MB 1024 2048
12 MB 768 1536
8 MB 512 1024
FAT DISKCACHE
Parameters
LAZY WRITES N/A LW
HPFS CACHE
Parameters
LAZY WRITES /LAZY:ON N/A
MAXAGE >7,500 N/A
DISKIDLE 60,000 N/A
BUFFERIDLE 60,000 N/A
A few more notes:
* For purposes of the table above, "active" and "passive" are
descriptors for the way a partition is used. If it is seldom used, it
is "passive." If a lot of disk intensive I/O occurs on the partition,
it is "active."
* The HPFS actually requires 128 to 130K of committed memory as opposed
to the widely perceived 512K. As cache size increases to 2MB, this
requirement increases as well, up to a maximum of about 240K.
* The optimal cache size seems to be 1536.
* When comparing the relative merits of the HPFS versus FAT, consider
the following: On partitions of identical size, the HPFS gives you
about 15% more space and performance is about 28% better!
* Instead of continuing to increase performance, a DISKCACHE value in
excess of 2048 seems to degrade it.
We welcome your comments. Reach us via email on CompuServe userid 71333,2765
or at Proportional Software, 1717 Linden Lake Rd., Ft. Collins, CO 80524, Tel.
(800) 666-4672 or (303) 484-2665. Fax. (303) 484-2670.