rec.autos.simulators

> ...
>> And while you're there you can change it to maxfilecache=40960
>> limiting cache to 40MB of RAM ;-> What kind of application would
>> benefit from 400MB (or more) of file caching? - Some servers
>> (database for example) would, but most (if not all) of them
>> implement caching scheme themselves and do it more efficiently.

>> Btw, some experts recommend setting both minfilecache and
>> maxfilecache to the same value to prevent windows from dynamically
>> reallocating the cache size.

> > I've set mine to 50MB, but if someone works a lot with files they will
> > profit from a larger cache, because when I set my maxfilecache to 256MB
> > I notice a speed difference of the disk I/O.

> > As for minfilecache, I stopped using that because I thought, while
> > you're *** the file cache probably isn't used much anyway but you
> > want to have as much free RAM as possible for your game. The size
> > changes don't seem to be noticeable anymore, I guess todays systems are
> > too fast for this to be an issue.

> > Achim

> Apparently Windows has problems releasing file cache memory
> even if it doesn't need it anymore which results in the RAM
> allocated to file cache growing and growing up to max limit.

> Alex.

> > ...
> >> And while you're there you can change it to maxfilecache=40960
> >> limiting cache to 40MB of RAM ;-> What kind of application would
> >> benefit from 400MB (or more) of file caching? - Some servers
> >> (database for example) would, but most (if not all) of them
> >> implement caching scheme themselves and do it more efficiently.

> >> Btw, some experts recommend setting both minfilecache and
> >> maxfilecache to the same value to prevent windows from dynamically
> >> reallocating the cache size.