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From: 16012_3705@uwovax.uwo.ca (Jeff Racine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Cache & Buffers..how many buffers are required?
Message-ID: <2082@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 16 Apr 89 23:37:25 GMT
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Organisation: Department of Economics, UWO, London, Ontario, Canada


	Can anybody offer some insight?  I have been told that if you use a 
disk caching program then you can reduce the number of buffers specified in
the `Buffers= ' entry in config.sys.
	Question:  By how much can you reduce the number?  Is there any way of
`optimizing' the number of buffers?  Since each buffer takes up 512 bytes of 
memory, then reducing buffers from 20 to 2 would free up a scarce resource,
lower memory.
	Currently I am using a 20 Mhz 286 clone with 2 MB of ram on the mother
board.  The caching program is PC Kwic Cache which is supplied with PCTOOLS
V 5.0.
	Any insight anyone could shed on this problem would be greatly
appreciated.  Thank you in advance for your time.

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