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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Cache parameter
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.172547.20474@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 17:25:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.220412.28727@serval.net.wsu.edu> bgraham@yoda.wsu.edu (Brooks Graham ) writes:
- >
- >I have noticed that there are two places in the CONFIG.SYS that specify
- >the OS/2 disk cache size. Once in the IFS= line and the other in (I think)
- >a CACHE= line.
- >
- >What's the difference between these two caches? Are there really TWO caches?
- >Should the sizes be the same? I have noticed that increasing the CACHE= size
- >improves performance on a FAT partition but I can't really tell the
- >difference on my HPFS partition.
-
- Yes there are two caches. The DISKCACHE= line controls caching
- (including lazy writes) for FAT volumes (like floppies), while the
- CACHE= parameter of the IFS=HPFS.IFS controls caching for the HPFS
- driver.
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