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From: brian@padouk.ima.isc.com (Brian R. Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: RAM Cache Setting
Keywords: Optimal RAM Cache Setting
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Date: 10 Jan 90 18:50:22 GMT
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In article <8106@portia.Stanford.EDU>, thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek
Fong) writes:
> Does anyone know what RAM Cache settings optimize the speed of the Mac.
> ....
> Has anyone out there tried the latest Virtual 2.0.  Is it reasonably fast?

A RAM cache will speed up your disk accesses, by caching them in main
memory. "Virtual" will give the appearance of more main memory by
swapping it out to disk.

Does it strike anyone else as amusing that someone might consider using
them both at the same time? (Hey, you know if you used Virtual 2.0, you
could make it look like you had 8 Meg of RAM, and then use 2 of those
megabytes as a RAM cache! :-).

		=brian

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