Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!thor!pcg From: pcg@thor.cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: ESDI controller recommendations Message-ID: Date: 27 Aug 89 10:36:22 GMT References: <121@mdi386.UUCP> <1474@wb3ffv.ampr.org> <4843@looking.on.ca> <1076@virtech.UUCP> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 20 In-reply-to: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP's message of 26 Aug 89 15:17:19 GMT In article <1076@virtech.UUCP> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes: In article <4843@looking.on.ca>, brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: > Surely it makes more sense for the OS to do all other cache duties. Yes, yes. There are figures on this, by AJ Smith. Some issue of TOCS. > Why put the 512K in your drive when you can put it in your system and > bump your cache there? Another point would be raw devices which are not buffered by the kernel but are cached by disk controller. Please think again and again about this. I am not entirely sure (let's try understatement for a change :-]) that this is a good idea rather than a problem. -- Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi | ARPA: pcg%cs.aber.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk