Re: adfsbuffers

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From: mckay_g
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 06:27

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In article <1992Dec18.113330@informatik.uni-kl.de>,
m_sattle@informatik.uni-kl.de (Matthias Sattler) writes:
> What are adfsbuffers really good for?

They speed up ADFS random file accesses.
 
> They should speed up the (hard)disc access but in fact they don't.
> I tried many different tests (hd-speed tests, compiling c programs, ...)
> on the harddisc of my A540 (RO2) with adfsbuffers 0 and adfsbuffers 256k.
> EVERY test with adfsbuffers configured was slightly slower than the test
> without adfsbuffers.
> Hmmmmmm... funny isn't it?

Not really since the A540 has a SCSI harddisc so the size of ADFS buffers
shouldn't make ANY difference.

Rob.

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