No, he is a PC user, so he doesn't know what that is. PC's don't have a
disk cache that is user adjustable (ok, you can hack it, default is 64K, you
can set to higher if you know where to look).
He claims the more ram you have, the more L2 cache is needed to clock the
data to the "L3" cache, aka, ram.
So in his theory, you need x amount of L2 cache to be the proper buffer for
the ram, so if you have 256M ram, you might need 512k L2, and if you go to
512M ram, you then need 1M, etc.
More cache is better, but the returns diminish as you get more and more L2
cache. He thinks it is due to the real ram staying the same, but if you add
more ram, then you can take advantage of the higher amounts of L2.
Maybe, maybe not. I would have to see how the L2 is in the flow charts in
relation to the ram.
Thomas Martin
-----Original Message-----
on 8/27/01 12:16 PM, Martin Thomas-WLTM07 at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> A friend of mine claims that the amount of L2 cache you need is dependant
on
> how much RAM you have.
>
> Is this the case?
You are probably thinking of the disk cache. (In the Memory control panel)
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