v113px6j@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Thomas A Overfield) (06/14/91)
I've seen all these postings telling of how raising the memory cache increases the speed of a IIsi. I've tried it myself and I'm not sure if I notice a difference or if it's "all in my head". Speedometer tells me there is no difference in speed, as I expected, since it's only performing tests on the chip. So how what do I use to measure performance in this situation? Other's have said they have seen improvements, what did they use to test it?
tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd Green) (06/15/91)
In article <79997@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v113px6j@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes: >performance in this situation? Other's have said they have seen >improvements, what did they use to test it? I used my eyes. I was recently given a IIsi, perhaps allocated is a better term. Anyway, I was amazed at how slow it was in comparison to the IIcx I have at home. After upping the cache to 768K (lower amounts didn't matter and I'm not running any inits on the machine besides SuperClock), I noticed a very significant speed increase in drawing operations. i.e. menus snapped down faster, windows opened quicker, redraws didn't take as long etc etc. There was a definite visible difference in the performance of the machine. I haven't had time to do tests to see how it affects others logging onto your machine etc. (I know before I set the cache just having one person access my machine over the net made it almost unusable during file transfers. ) I believe the machine has a Quantum 40 in it and 5 meg, but haven't had time to open the machine to look at the drive yet (or get SCSI probe etc etc.) Todd -- Internet: tagreen@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu NeXTMail: tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu BitNet: tagreen@iubacs.bitnet