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Article #42982Re: RAM cache size
From: Robert Rubinoff
Date: Wed, 24 May 1989 19:23
Date: Wed, 24 May 1989 19:23
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I have also been having problems that I think are caused by the RAM cache. Does anyone know what it actually caches, and whether it's write-through? Several times I've had the machine crash and rebooted to discover that files I had saved weren't there any more. If this is because they're somehow being cached until some later time, this means that the RAM cache is very dangerous. It's nice to get the speedup the cache gives, but not at the risk of losing files (or corrupting the disk directory). Does anyone know if there is a safe size to set the cache that will prevent this? Robert
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