Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!wagner From: wagner@utcs.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Hard disk through parallel port Message-ID: <1986Dec21.173525.5873@utcs.uucp> Date: Sun, 21-Dec-86 17:35:25 EST Article-I.D.: utcs.1986Dec21.173525.5873 Posted: Sun Dec 21 17:35:25 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Dec-86 18:35:16 EST References: <8612180630.AA23659@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <1537@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Reply-To: wagner@utcs.UUCP (Michael Wagner) Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services, general purpose UNIX Lines: 9 Checksum: 03680 Since we're on the topic of disk performance, I thought I'd point out a surprising result that I've gathered so far. The cache incorporated in 1.2 doesn't really seem to improve the timings of Rick's benchmarks, in general. That isn't too surprising....he goes to some trouble to make it difficult for a cache to work well in his benchmarks. However, one thing does speed up tremendously....deleting files! So now we can say that the cache makes it quicker to trash things....a great improvement! Michael