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From: palm@admin.kth.se (Christer Palm)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Disk cache
Message-ID: <1990Oct18.085509.8364@kth.se>
Date: 18 Oct 90 08:55:09 GMT
References: <1990Oct17.001613.17999@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <1990Oct17.001613.17999@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> kpmiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Kent P Miller) writes:
>What's the scoop on disk cache sizes?  Does anyone have a suggestion of
>the optimum size cache for a machine with 3Mb? 5Mb?  2Mb?
>
Windows manual Chapter 13

Setting the cache size to less than 256K is not effective.

Setting the cache size larger than 1024K might not be the best use of your
system's memory.

Ex: increasing a 256K cache to 512K might improve your system speed by 20 %
    increasing a 1024K cache to 1280 might improve your system speed by 2 %

As i understand it is the optimum size for cache 1024K when using SMARTDRV

/Christer