Path: utzoo!dptcdc!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Cache & Buffers..how many buffers are required? Message-ID: Date: 18 Apr 89 04:00:24 GMT References: <2082@uwovax.uwo.ca> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 8 In-reply-to: 16012_3705@uwovax.uwo.ca's message of 16 Apr 89 23:37:25 GMT I concur with five buffers. My research showed an exponentially decreasing curve that met the linearly increasing curve at five or six buffers. Since five gives equal performance as six, use five and save some memory! -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) America -- Socialism for the rich people, Capitalism for the rest of us. -- Michael Harrington, Co-Chair, Democratic Socialists of America