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- From: pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Paul J. Bodin)
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- Subject: Re: Cache tests
- Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.0.713721103.pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 15:51:43 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 13 Aug 92 10:21:00 CST
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- Robert Lavenda writes (in part):
-
- > It seems that the major differences between PC-Cache and Ncache on the one
- > hand, and Hyperdisk and Combi on the other are in the Write speeds. It
- > may be possible to adjust the writes on Hyperdisk, but as noted above, it
- > was my intention to test default setups. Machine specifics: 386DX-33 clone,
- > IDE controller, Seagate 107MB drive with 15 millisecond average access time.
-
- It may be worthwhile to some of you to note that PC-Cache is actually
- a version of Super PC-Kwik, licensed by Central Point Software. As is
- the usual case in such arrangements, the cache that is currently
- distributed as Super PC-Kwik is an even more recent (and faster)
- version of that same cache. When I used DOS I found it to be an
- excellent system accelerator.
-
- Also note that Super PC-Kwik, when purchased in the Power Pak,
- includes a RAM disk that shares memory with the cache buffers, and
- that the whole thing can dynamically share its memory with other
- applications that use the same kind of memory. This is the same kind
- of thing other NB-ers have noted with COMBI, and I believe that Super
- PC-Kwik is a faster cache. I was particularly happy that the RAM disk
- used up memory (under NB) only when NB wrote temporary files, and that
- the rest of the time *all* of the memory was used to cache the hard drive.
-
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