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From: draper@bu-tyng.bu.edu (Dave Draper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Cache Software -- What's good.
Keywords: Cache for PS/2 Model 30-286
Message-ID: <476@bu-tyng.bu.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 89 20:46:21 GMT
References: <1064@unm-la.UUCP> <9383@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <6323@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Reply-To: draper@bu-tyng.UUCP (Dave Draper)
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In article <6323@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> mvolo@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) writes:
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>[poster asked about caches programs]
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>As many of you are aware, the last issue of PC Mag had an excellent
>comparison of disk cache programs.


Communications of the ACM for January 1989 (Volume 32 Number 1)
has an excellent article comparing hardware and software disk
caching programs for IBM PC's and clones.

It covers the following topics:

Hardware Cache
Software Cache
RAM disk
DOS buffers
Logical Record Blocking

The article has sequential I/O processing timing tests using all of
the above schemes complete with results and charts and graphs for
visual comparison of results.

Other applications that are tested include:

Sequential I/O processing
File Blocking for sequential files
Sorting
Compilation and Linkage editing
Spreadsheet applications
Word processing
dBase applications

There is about a 1.5 page conclusion section along with reccomendations.

A must article for anybody serious about investigating disk caching.

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