On 23 Jun 2014 David Pitt <[email protected]> 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. -- Peter Young (zfc W) and family Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk [email protected]
