Re: Disc cache worth it?

On 23 Jun 2014 David Pitt <pittdj@pittdj.co.uk> wrote:

> Peter Young, on 23 Jun, wrote:

>> I've been using the disc cache on RISC OS 2.19, ARMini, and I seem to have
>> found some downsides to it, and I wonder if (a) I'm doing it correctly and
>> (b) if it's worth the occasional faster opening of some sites.
>>
>> If I load, for instance, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ as the first site of a
>> session, it loads maybe a little faster, but then I get intermittent
>> hourglass activity for sometimes up to thirty seconds, during which I
>> can't do anything else. There are several other sites, for instance
>> Wikipedia home page, which do the same. And the next day the same happens.

> I have found much the same, a really good example of this is the Daily
> Mail's heavy weight site.

> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

> Writes to the Raspberry Pi's SD Card are so slow that !Cache is not going to
> be good news on it. It is better with !Cache on a Fat32 harddisc connected
> to the Pi and on the Iyonix but is still an issue.

> Overall I was not persuaded that the cache results is any meaningful speed
> up and could even slow things up, not just on the Raspberry Pi but also on
> the Iyonix and VRPC on a Windows 7 laptop with an SSD.

Thanks, David, and I'm glad it's not just me. I'll await what Chris
makes of a logfile, when I get a round tuit, and will maybe then
uninstall !Cache.

Best wishes,

Peter.

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