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Subject: Re: Question about disk or TB caching

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 00:13:32 02/01/05

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>Is there any caching going on between tests?  Either disk caching in the
>OS/hardware, or in my cache for TBs (set to 128 MB) ?!  I'm just wondering if
>the later tests benefit from the first test, especially if there's a big overlap
>of positions getting accessed in the TBs between tests.

Yes. The OS will cache disk access in 'spare' memory. Depending on the position,
later test runs will be faster than earlier ones.
Richard.



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