On Mon, 31 May 1999, Gideon Glass wrote:
> I would gently suggest that an 8GB disk cache size is no longer very
> interesting. However, I would be very curious to know if replacement
> algorithms made a difference in managing main-memory caches. A couple
> weeks ago I ran some LRU simulations of main-memory caches against the
> Polygraph "uniform" model, and the hit rates are very low (e.g. 10%
> byte hit rate for 60MB cache).
How interesting is the topic of main-memory (RAM-only) caches? I've
heard some people speculate that they might begin to appear within
the foreseeable future.
Do RAM-only caches make sense? If so, how large would they be? Are
we talking 100MB - 1GB, or much larger?
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