Michael L. Dawley wrote:
>l. Does Arachne benefit from smartdrv?
Yes (most programs do).
>2. Is it only for windows programs like Netscape,
> Eudora, etc?
No it's for all programs that uses the HD and access any file again (and if
that time is relativly short so the file content is still in the memmory).
>3. On machines with only 8 MB ram, is it of more
> value, than say, on a box with 32 MB ram?
It's of equal value, but with 32MB you'll be able to use more of your
memmory for it (and thereby it will, normally, be faster). I use 32MB of my
64MB for the smartdrv cache - and when I get 128 I'll bet I'll need to find
some other program that can accept more than 32MB as cache (96MB for
instance - that should really reduce HD access even if I use the computer a
whole day).
Anyway, depending on what you run (and in this case your settings in
Arachne) the ammount of memmory needed by the program differs. But with
32MB I would suspect that at least most of the time 16MB is unused. There
are people on this list that probably know much more about this than I do...
//Bernie
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