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TITLE: NetWare Lite and 3rd Party Caches
DOCUMENT ID#: FYI.P.6111
DATE: December 10, 1992
PRODUCT: NetWare Lite
PRODUCT VERSION: v1.1
SUPERSEDES: FYI.P.6009
SYMPTOM: NA
ISSUE/PROBLEM
NetWare Lite and 3rd Party Caches
NetWare Lite v1.1 now ships with a disk cache called NLCACHE. See document #155 for particular indepth details.
WARNING: Caches, other than the NetWare Lite Cache, may need to have delayed writes, deferred writes, posted writes, or queued writes disabled if they are used with NetWare Lite. Many cache programs "wake up" to do writes in the background, they do not protect themselves from re-entry with a DOS-critical section callout. If you use a cache (other than the NetWare Lite Cache) with deferred writes, posted writes, or queued writes turned on, you may get random hangs, data corruption, or other abnormal behavior. To use a cache other then the NetWare Lite Cache, call the cache company's technical support group to find out if their cache's deferred writes, posted writes, or queued writes work with NetWare Lite.
Many caches don't allow delayed writes, deferred writes, posted writes, or queued writes when using a peer-to-peer network. However, the NetWare Lite Cache can use delayed writes. If you are using a cache that has one of the above options, make sure the option is turned off.
Some cache tuning may be necessary for best results.
NOTE: DO NOT LOAD TWO CACHE UTILITIES ON THE SAME MACHINE.
