Hi

Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 >> This is also the reason why ncache2 was faster, because the
 >> testprogram favors caches with small read ahead buffer. Most accesses
 >> are random, and so a big read ahead buffer slows this artificial test
 >> down.
 B> Interesting, I tested to lower (from 56K) to the default 16K
 B> read-ahead and I got a performence decrease (not by much but it was
 B> there).

I was just guessing ... :)
So I was wrong ... ncache _IS_ a good cache, but generally the
speed difference is marginal ... it is IMHO not really important what cache
you use, but it's important to use a cache at all ;-)

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CU, Ricsi

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