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Article #43478Cache hit counter wanted
From: Duncan Murdoch
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 1990 16:05
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 1990 16:05
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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. (I've got MS SMARTDRV.SYS and Mace MCACH-EM.SYS. According to the near-useless test supplied by Mace, they're about equal. But who cares how long it takes to read a long file backwards?) It would seem straightforward enough to write: I'd install a TSR or device driver before the cache program that kept count of BIOS disk read requests, and another copy after the cache. The difference in the two counts would tell me how many requests had been satisfied from the cache. Does anyone know of an already existing program to do this? If not, can you see any obvious flaws in the "design" given above? Please reply either by email or by posting here; I'll summarize any information I get by email that doesn't appear in a posting. Duncan Murdoch dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!maytag!watstat!dmurdoch From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Cache hit counter wanted Message-ID: <1641@maytag.waterloo.edu> Date: 5 Mar 90 16:05:24 GMT Sender: daemon@maytag.waterloo.edu Reply-To: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 21