Re: RAMDISK, not a joke!

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From: Carl Edman
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 15:10

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Andrew Loewenstern writes
> It would be nice if NeXT would either beef up the cache allocation, or
> make it settable via a file...  It would be cool if Mach did what
> NetWare does...  NetWare uses ALL unused memory for file, FAT, and
> TurboFAT caching.  A 32-meg NetWare server just cranks, even with a
> LOT of disk access going on.  So if Mach turned all available memory
> into disk-cache and then released it as memory was needed (until the
> disk cache reaches a certain point), we'd prabably get more speed.

Mach already does. Believe me, there are very few things which a modern UNIX  
like Mach/BSD4.3 can learn PC operating system software.

	Carl Edman

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