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From: ching@pepsi.amd.com (Mike Ching)
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Subject: Re: Cache hit counter wanted
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Date: 5 Mar 90 23:40:14 GMT
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In article <1641@maytag.waterloo.edu> dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
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>I'd like to measure the performance of a couple of disk cache programs in real
>use.  The obvious measurement as to how well they're performing is the number
>of cache hits versus misses; however, neither of them keeps track.

A data point that you might find interesting is that I just booted my
Compaq which has a cache program that keeps statistics and my autoexec.bat
does 132 reads of which 26 are from the disk and 106 are from the cache.
Seems like ANY cache program would be a big win.

Mike Ching