Should I use a Disk Cache ?

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From: Philip LOCONG
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 1991 21:23

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I have a 3Megs 6Mhz AT with a 65Megs 28ms and a 32Megs 40ms RLL drives.
 have tried QuickCache using BUFFERS=3. I don't get much of a difference
from no cache and BUFFERS=25. Using "timer" from 4DOS I barely get a
5-10% increase in speed when I do "du" (UNIX-like from PICNIX) on a
hole 32Megs partition from the 65Meg drive. Same thing with emTeX when
I minimize the CPU work, or DVI with no pages of output. Is this normal?

Also, there doesn't seem to be any more tech. support for QC, and
it keeps on crashing. Anybody know of a good shareware cache with
some support?

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