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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: ESDI caching disk controllers: Reprise
Keywords: ESDI cache
Message-ID: <1990May8.012859.18151@virtech.uucp>
Date: 8 May 90 01:28:59 GMT
References: <274@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <873@sixhub.UUCP> <1424@ssbn.WLK.COM> <1736@serene.UUCP> <263E613E.23840@paris.ics.uci.edu> <1990May3.050416.14124@pegasus.com>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990May3.050416.14124@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.UUCP (Richard Foulk) writes:
>the disk cache versus more main-memory question using Unix.  Adding to
>main memory almost always won out as I recall -- at least with proper
>tuning.
>
>The disk cache is certainly a win with MESS-DOS since it doesn't have
>any idea what to do with more memory.  I think that's where these
>boards are coming from.

The disk cache is also a win when you have already maxed out main
memory.  My 386 has 16 MB of memory and 2 1/2 MB of disk cache.


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