Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/06/26/03:47:02
Leendert Combee wrote:
>
> - For the reason of profiling, I did put the main part of my code
> into a 1000x loop. Now, if I run the code under plain DOS+cwsdpmi,
> indeed I see the harddisk is accessed all the time (not
> swapping/paging!, just 1000x file i/o); however, if I run the code
> from a dosbox/win95 (same machine etc) I only see a harddisk access
> once and that's it. ... I don't have smartdrive etc installed.
windows has its own 32-bit disk cache called vcache. so, under dos you
are running without a disk cache and in a dos box in windows 95, you are
running with.
-- Sinan
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