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- From: qsi@contrast.wlink.nl (Peter Kocourek)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: RE: HELP: IIsi with SLOW hard drive
- Message-ID: <724444742.AA00770@contrast.wlink.nl>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:23:28
- Sender: postmaster@contrast.wlink.nl
- Lines: 17
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- Usenet News System wrote in a message on 10 Dec 92 to All
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- UNS> Set your disc cache to 32K and your disc will go fast again...
- UNS> Benchmarks showing this were posted last month, Apple NZ is
- UNS> still trying to find out an explanation for us (Apple NZ verified
- UNS> it on their machines, this is not a IIsi only "feature"). If
- UNS> you've got no INIT's at all then 384K cache will speed up the
- UNS> video on your IIsi, any INIT's and you won't need this much
- UNS> - experiment with Speedometer
-
- I wasn't here a month ago, but I have run my own benchmarks (with a program
- ported from Unix, called Iozone), and I can confirm this. I don't have the
- exact figures at hand right now, but the cache slows the harddisk access down
- tremendously; incredible but true.
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- YHS:QSI!
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