From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
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Subject: Re: Slow disk (was: Complaints about DJGPP)
Date: 28 May 1997 08:26:17 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
: What happens if you invoke the same compilation once again immediately
: after the first one exits?  How much time does it take then?  If it
: isn't significantly faster (because files come from the disk cache,
: i.e. from memory), then I'd say you have some configuration problem
: that is unrelated to the disk.  If it *is* much faster, make the disk
: cache larger (like 8MB) even if you have to uninstall the RAM disk for
: this, and make the cache be write-back.

Without write-back cache, first compilation takes 25 seconds and 10
immediately repeated; with write-back, 17 and 3 seconds. Doubling the
cache from 4 to 8MB didn't make any difference, so I didn't bother
trying without RAM disk.

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/