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Hally
08-17-2002, 01:45 PM
Hi I'd like to know this about a section of "system.ini" in particular the MaxFileCache part of "vcache". As you know there is a tweak where you set the vcache a bit like this
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[vcache]
MinFileCache=0
MaxFileCache=8192
ChunkSize=512
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I only have 64mb ram . . . I always see the setting for MaxFileCache= set in lots of 1024bytes x 4 in other words lots of 4mb. as you see my setting is 8mb 8192bytes, I've seen 16mb (16384) for people with bigger ram <font color=blue>Now here's my question!</font color=blue> (sorry) Does it have to be in lots of 4mb 4096bytes could you set it to 10mb or 9mb??? Its bugged me for a while not knowing this, can anyone please tell us if you can set it to any amount you like
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wing0
08-17-2002, 02:44 PM
Usually you set the vcache to be 25% of your physical ram size. In your case, it will be 65536 X 25% = 16384.
Also, set your your Min and Max to be the same number. Chunksize is usually set to 512, so you don't have to change it.
BertImmenschuh
08-17-2002, 03:21 PM
Hally, if you were to go back in computing far enough, you'd find that memory and storage sizes in KB, MB, and GB are usually in multiples of 8 [Octal].

1024, 2048, 4096, 8192 are all evenly divisible by 8.

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Hally
08-17-2002, 04:55 PM
Yes thats true Bert my 1st PC had 16mb Ram but as you know can you get 4mb or 8mb, 32mb Ram & upwards Thanks Bert


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BertImmenschuh
08-17-2002, 05:24 PM
16mb Ram

Wow! My first was a 386-40MHz with 4MB RAM, 120MB hard drive and 1MB Video Card, all in a black case with black monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

It had MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1, WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows, and Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows.

Cost me $2800 back in 1992.

10 years later we're back to the black ensembles.

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Hally
08-18-2002, 02:28 AM
Its so funny when you look back on those computers we had & I'll bet you're Ram has more megabytes now than your whole HDD had way back then Bert, its crazy to think 4mb ram was enough then. . . now you wouldn't even consider it. <font color=blue>Cheers Bert</font color=blue>


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BertImmenschuh
08-18-2002, 08:11 AM
I wouldn't even consider running on 64MB RAM any more, the programs demand more than they used to. MS-DOS 6.22 still runs just fine on 4MB and small hard drives but then the demands aren't much.

The slowest Win98 computer I have has 64MB on it but it is not used, it's a loaner also for sale. The ones in use have 256 or 512MB in them.

I can remember the 345MB hard drives that cost $345 back in '93/'94, a buck a meg was good then. Can buy 4 or 5 20GB drives for that now.

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