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by Jaga
Mon Jul 05, 2021 11:14 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: L1 vs VMM, page file, metadata database
Replies: 2
Views: 688

Re: L1 vs VMM, page file, metadata database

Will attempt to give good answers, though based on experience you may find your results vary from my own. 1) If I were able to, I'd disable any Windows volume caching completely and stick with Primocache for 100% caching duty. It's just far far better overall in how it manages volumes and the most-u...
by Jaga
Mon Jul 05, 2021 11:02 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Best settings for cache?
Replies: 14
Views: 4113

Re: Best settings for cache?

Do you have any other drive acceleration software running Myg? Things like Samsung's RAPID try to do similar speed-up routines, and aren't good to run alongside Primocache. Also, disable Windows fast boot (or any other motherboard fast boot features). Prefetch hasn't failed me yet in many years, but...
by Jaga
Mon Jun 28, 2021 8:58 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Best settings for cache?
Replies: 14
Views: 4113

Re: Best settings for cache?

I've not noticed any significant benefit from extending Defer-Write beyond the default 10s myself and you do increase the risk of data loss with higher settings. If you're confident about your backup (and restore) regime, feel free to experiment. I find better write coalescing and trimmed blocks th...
by Jaga
Sun Jun 27, 2021 5:10 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Best settings for cache?
Replies: 14
Views: 4113

Re: Best settings for cache?

If you are certain your machine is rock solid stable, you can change deferred write times to ~10 minutes, and then block size to the same as your volume's cluster size (typically 4K on a SSD/NVMe).
by Jaga
Sun Jun 27, 2021 1:57 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Best settings for cache?
Replies: 14
Views: 4113

Re: Best settings for cache?

Shared read/write space (not separate), deferred writes (~10 seconds, possibly 30 if your laptop is stable), 8K or 16K block size (a blend of performance and lower overhead), Pre-fetch at boot (if your C: drive is a SSD).
by Jaga
Sat Jun 26, 2021 9:17 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Is there any way to force L2 cache a specific directory?
Replies: 17
Views: 26839

Re: Is there any way to force L2 cache a specific directory?

Ultimately, when you do pre cache an entire folder, you are wasting resources because even a major complex game or program with tens of thousands of files really only uses a small percentage of those files. So you might be doing a lot of reading of all the files of a large program for nothing. And ...
by Jaga
Sat Jun 26, 2021 9:01 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: A question about Chkdsk and PrimoCache
Replies: 4
Views: 992

Re: A question about Chkdsk and PrimoCache

Yes. Primocache runs at the kernel level. i.e. when windows is loading it's core at boot time, Primocache also loads with it. It is a lower level than that at which Applications run.
by Jaga
Sun Jun 20, 2021 6:24 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: CHIA and PrimoCache
Replies: 35
Views: 13073

Re: CHIA and PrimoCache

I think that CPU will be overkill, but I've seen some Threadrippers take full advantage of it (and proper memory) so it may work fine for you. Absolutely don't get an older server with DDR3, it'll hurt plot times with the slower RAM. You'll still want one fast SSD/NVMe (yes, you will want it) as the...
by Jaga
Sat Jun 19, 2021 10:37 am
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: CHIA and PrimoCache
Replies: 35
Views: 13073

Re: CHIA and PrimoCache

MadMax requires 2 drives for plotting: Temp2 (your faster drive) requires about 110GB, and takes ~75% of overall plotting writes. Temp1 is for assembling the final plot parts, and takes ~25% of the total plot writes. That's why you "plot to a Temp2 RAMdrive" to fully accelerate your plotti...
by Jaga
Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:08 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: CHIA and PrimoCache
Replies: 35
Views: 13073

Re: CHIA and PrimoCache

With 128GB of RAM, you'd want to create a RAMdrive and use the MadMax plotter with it. 0 writes to the drive, only need a ~110GB RAMdrive volume size for the Temp2 volume. Temp1 is where the other 25% of the writes happen, and can be a SSD or HDD.