I've recently tried out Norton Cache (ncache2.exe, v. 7.0) and Symantec Speed Drive (speedrv.exe, v. 4.0) along with MS-DOS 6.2 SmartDRV (smartdrv.exe, v. unknown) (thanks for the files Bjorn). Since the information I found out might be of interest to other people I thought that a mail might be good. Please note that I didn't test with all the diffrent performing optimizations that were available. This turned out to to just a test to see how big the cache could be. Program: SmartDRV.Exe NCache2.Exe SpeeDrv.Exe MaxSize (Kb): 32767 20xxx 20xxx In whatever fashion the diffrent programs work it's pretty clear that a bigger cache is better then a smaller one. On the other hand "ncache2" and "speedrv" presented statistics much better then "smartdrv" did so if you want that it's a much better option. Of course if you don't have more than 20MB to spare then other things will come into the equation. These things are much to hard to test for me, and probably differ from system to system anyway. So, does anyone know where there's a program that can use more than 32MB? 64MB SDRAM PC-100 doesn't cost that much these days, and it will probably become even cheaper soon with the new Windows versions comming out. BTW: I think SmartDRV "cheats" when it presents the hit/miss stats since it doesn't seem to count the first misses (when the cache is empty). //Bernie http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
