[DM-MUG] Networking and web access

[jim Lagnese]

What I meant was to store the browser cache files that are in your
preferences folder in the RAM disk. Having no cache forces the browser to
download all files all the time. With dialup, that can be tedious at best.

> From: Arne Quanbeck <jaquanbeck@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: dmmug@dmmug.org
> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:34:16 -0800 (PST)
> To: dmmug@dmmug.org
> Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] Networking and web access
> 
> --- jim Lagnese <jlagnese@mac.com> wrote:
>> You could also use a RAM Disk on the OS 8 Mac and
>> have the browser cache in
>> that. 
> 
> I have tried that trick as well, and while it is
> faster than your hard drive, you will get better
> performance by simply turning the disk cache OFF in
> most web browsers on OS 8. The reason is that the OS 8
> takes long enough to access the cache files that it
> can seriously slow down your browser. Using a RAM disk
> eliminates only part of the bottleneck with OS 9 web
> browsers. Web browsers generally have a built-in
> memory cache, so a RAM disk cache is somewhat (but not
> completely) redundant. The disk cache is most useful
> to store pages from session to session, or to store
> large objects that won't fit in memory. If you are
> going to store them in RAM anyway, you might as well
> use your web browser's internal memory cache.
> 
>> Let's not mince words: Dialup is slow. I have
>> a cable modem, and
>> compared to the cable I had in NY, it's slow.
> ...
> dialup is slower than broadband. There is no question
> about that. If all of the items that make up the page
> are in a cache so the browser only downloads one or
> two images with the Web page, a 56k dialup can be
> perfectly usable. Sometimes I have even forgotten I am
> using a dialup connection. I notice the dialup as soon
> as I download something big that is not in the cache.
> Arne
> 
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears
> http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/
> _______________________________________________
> Dmmug mailing list
> Dmmug@dmmug.org
> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/dmmug