Orange Micro RAMPAK 4GS - Manual (Page 20)

application. Dynamic Cache Allocation is recommended
for most caching purposes. All that you manually need to
allocate is the amount of RAM you wish to set aside for
total system caching. A dialog box will appear asking for
the number of blocks you wish to set aside as a total
buffer pool size. One block equals 512 bytes of RAM.
For example, 128 blocks equals 64K bytes of RAM.
This memory will be unavailable to programs or other
utilities. The default setting is 256 blocks, equaling
128K of RAM for caching. While the RamPak utilities
default to specify that all drives will be dynamically
allocated, the user may enable or disable the cache on
specific disk drives, doing this by using the Dynamic
Cache Allocation menu in the same manner as the
Manual Cache Allocation menu.
As an example of Dynamic Cache Allocation, if you
are running an application in which a large RAM cache
would be beneficial on drive 2 and you currently have no
cache specified there, the RamPak utility will
automatically take RAM from other caches or from
unused cache memory, and add it where it is needed.
All Dynamic Cache Allocation is performed around your
RAM disk. All manual settings within the
RamPak Utilities program are lost when
Dynamic Cache Allocation is implemented.
Statistics
RESET STATISTICS COUNTER TO ZERO
This selection resets statistic counters to zero.
Sets Reads, Hits, % and Writes to Ø. This is useful for
picking a starting point from which you can gather
statistics about your cache.
DISABLE STATISTICS DISPLAY
Prevents you from viewing the Statistics’ dialog
box.
ENABLE STATISTICS DISPLAY
Enables you to view the Statistics” dialog box.
Abort Caches
Disables caching on all disk drives
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