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From: keith@apple.UUCP (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: AppleShare and RAM cache
Message-ID: <6290@apple.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 21:41:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 18 21:41:11 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 11:45:20 EDT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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In article <1046@cive.ri.cmu.edu> fitz@cive.ri.cmu.edu (Kerien Fitzpatrick) writes:
>In version 1.0 of AppleShare the RAM cache is supposed to be set to 64k.
>Now that version 1.1 is out I was wondering if I could increase the size of
>the cache?  Is the cache size limited by machine memory?  If that is the
>case I would add additional memory to the SEs acting as servers so that I
>could increase the size of the cache.  I am also running LaserShare on the
>AppleShare servers (LaserShare is fairly sharp, but would benefit immensely
>by the ability to inform users that have queued mail that the printer is out
>of paper or that their job has finished).  I tried our university computer
>store, but they did not know the answer to these questions.
>

Actually, AppleShare 1.1 does not use the RAM cache setting that you specify.
When AppleShare is run, it allocates a certain amount of memory for itself, a
certain amount of memory for a concurrent application, and then sets up the
rest as a RAM cache. Therefore, you will always be getting maximum performance
from the RAM cache. You can see the size of the RAM cache at any time by 
opening the Control Panel, but you cannot set it.

-- 

Keith Rollin
Sales Technical Support
Apple Computer

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