ESDI caching disk controllers: Reprise
Conor P. Cahill
cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Tue May 8 11:28:59 AEST 1990
In article <1990May3.050416.14124 at pegasus.com> richard at pegasus.UUCP (Richard Foulk) writes:
>the disk cache versus more main-memory question using Unix. Adding to
>main memory almost always won out as I recall -- at least with proper
>tuning.
>
>The disk cache is certainly a win with MESS-DOS since it doesn't have
>any idea what to do with more memory. I think that's where these
>boards are coming from.
The disk cache is also a win when you have already maxed out main
memory. My 386 has 16 MB of memory and 2 1/2 MB of disk cache.
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