Tuning SYSVR3 (Esix Rev D) (LONG!)

[P. Brouwer]

In <1990Dec4.031037.2718 at jwt.UUCP> john at jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:

>Is a cached hard disk controller a win in this situation?  If you
>flush a bunch of stuff to disk (but not so much as to overflow the
>controller's cache), does the system's response still feel "snappy"?

My guess is that a cache on a disk controller will probably a write through
cache . So this will not change the behaviour if the system during a unix cache
flush.
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