Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > From: "Michal H. Tyc" <mht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:24:25 +0100 > Subject: [arachne] Re: arachne Digest V2 #84 > Why don't you use any disk cache? Although Arachne works mostly Mainly because I've never understood it. But prompted by your reply and Glenn G.'s, I have looked it up in the MS-DOS 6 COMPANION... gee, there's always so much to read and so little time... SMARTDRV is now installed. Unfortunately the cache is empty so I can't see whether it has helped. > on the ramdisk in your setup (I assume that E: is your ramdisk), It is. > And where is your CACHE.IDX, on C: or on the ramdisk (E:)? On C:, so that I don't lose it when I logoff and shut down. I'm experimenting at present with copying it to E: before loading Arachne, and then saving it back to C: on exiting. That way I should get the best of both worlds :-)))) > ------------------------------ > From: "Glenn Gilbreath Jr." <wizard57m@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 16:23:25 -0600 > Subject: [arachne] Re: Delays, update > NCache. So, if using MS DOS, add a line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT > to load the disk caching of SmartDrive with similar command: > LH C:\DOS\SMARTDRV 2048 I have now done that. > Next, reduce the "BUFFERS=30,0" statement in CONFIG.SYS to > BUFFERS=10,0 If I remember correctly, I needed the high buffers setting for GeoWorks. But I'll check that. Greg Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --