Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!IFI.UIO.NO!larserio From: larserio@IFI.UIO.NO (LarsErikOsterud) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Disk Speedup Message-ID: Date: 12 Oct 89 12:47:07 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 9 It will help a lot using a disk-cache program and reserve 1 MB for it (if you have 1 MB free RAM that is). Then the last 1 MB you read from the HD will be kept here, useful when you first edit something, then save and compile - The compiler doesn't have to read the file from disk - its in the cache-buffer and everything goes much faster..... Lars-Erik / ABK-BBS +47 2132659 / ____ ______ ________________________ Osterud / larserio@ifi.uio.no / /___ / The norwegian ST __________/ ______________________/ ____/ / Klubben, user association