On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 04:17:05 -0400, "Mark Wagner"
<mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:

>Disk cache.  Run a big program and watch Windows put the disk cache into
>virtual memory!
>
>Mark

There's a $20 shareware proggie for windoze called MemTurbo. A 30-day
trial is available at TUCOWS. It does memory defrags & recovery as
well as controls the min and max cache size. So far I haven't seen any
problems with the trial version, but keep in mind:

a) The first time I ran the program it was able to free up 78 of the
96 MB physical RAM I have (by paging dlls and such to the hdd) when no
programs were running. Now, a typical value is 12-16 MB. Why? I don't
know. Actually, the system behaves better when having 16 MB of free
physical RAM than when having 75 (cause it still needs those dlls and
has to reload them on demand)

b) The cache tuning options are not available in the trial version, so
I can't report on that

c) Cache tuning does not work under NT

Just so that you know :)


Peter Popov
ICQ: 15002700

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