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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: RAM Cache Setting
Keywords: Optimal RAM Cache Setting
Message-ID: <1238@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 90 04:56:52 GMT
References: <8106@portia.Stanford.EDU> <15609@haddock.ima.isc.com>
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Reply-To: siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel)
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In article <15609@haddock.ima.isc.com> brian@ima.isc.com writes:
>In article <8106@portia.Stanford.EDU>, thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek
>Fong) writes:
>
>Does it strike anyone else as amusing that someone might consider using
>them both at the same time? (Hey, you know if you used Virtual 2.0, you
>could make it look like you had 8 Meg of RAM, and then use 2 of those
>megabytes as a RAM cache! :-).

	Actually, if your disk cache is sufficiently small, and the amount
of physical memory is sufficient large (I have 5MB), then you can actually
benefit from using the RAM cache with Virtual, because the disk cache hits
will be fairly frequent, while page swaps will be fairly infrequent.

R.


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