Perhaps having scrap and cache is causing issues on the same card? I use memphis for scrap?
On 23 Jun 2014, Rob Kendrick <r...@netsurf-browser.org> wrote: >On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 07:04:53PM +0100, David Pitt 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. > >Ultimately, my advice is to not visit this service. This stands >regardless of any cache issues that may exist :) > >> 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. > >Indeed, SD has poor write performance almost anywhere, like most >flash-based devices. > >> 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. > >Certainly on UNIX and BeOS, it seems to provide a significant >performance boost, but this is probably because of their far superior >IO >layers. > >On RISC OS, the disc cache *may* only be a win for people on slow >connections. > >B. -- Sent with K-@ Mail - the evolution of emailing.
