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- From: mckay_g@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: adfsbuffers
- Date: 20 Dec 92 18:27:34 NZST
- Organization: Welligton City Council, Public Access.
- Lines: 18
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.182734.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz>
- References: <1992Dec18.113330@informatik.uni-kl.de>
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- In article <1992Dec18.113330@informatik.uni-kl.de>,
- m_sattle@informatik.uni-kl.de (Matthias Sattler) writes:
- > What are adfsbuffers really good for?
-
- They speed up ADFS random file accesses.
-
- > They should speed up the (hard)disc access but in fact they don't.
- > I tried many different tests (hd-speed tests, compiling c programs, ...)
- > on the harddisc of my A540 (RO2) with adfsbuffers 0 and adfsbuffers 256k.
- > EVERY test with adfsbuffers configured was slightly slower than the test
- > without adfsbuffers.
- > Hmmmmmm... funny isn't it?
-
- Not really since the A540 has a SCSI harddisc so the size of ADFS buffers
- shouldn't make ANY difference.
-
- Rob.
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