On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 16:02:28 -0500
"Phoebus R. Dokos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> Well I don't remember exactly what the problem is... but I think (correct 
> me if I am wrong Claus) that Slave blocks are not cleared at all after 
> being used 

This is the bright side of slaving, if a file  has been opened and read, then these 
blocks are in ram, then 2nd access is very fast. But the 1st time it's terrible slow 
on machines with lots of mem.  

> and that effectively reduces the caching mechanism in constant 
> streams of (new) data to 0... Well I think!
> 
> Phoebus
> 


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