BlitzDisk(tm) cache
18-Nov-87 22:02:35
Sb: #94053-BlitzDisk(tm) cache
Fm: Charlie Heath 74216,2117
To: Bob Rakosky 75156,336
I've been using it with the hddisk device, and using the beta NEWFS
too. It does pretty nicely, with 131072 bytes/sec read speed
using diskperfa and a 32K buffer, as compared with 70849 without
BlitzDisk. The biggest advantage with harddisks, if the driver
is already pretty peppy, is just to cache directories and small
programs, so I'm tweaking the adjustments for this. This will
minimize seeks, and is particularly nice when you're multitasking
and want to pop up a CLI or do a directory while something else
is accessing the HD.
…cheath