I checked the trial version 2.7.0 on copying a large volume of small files (100gb mp3 files).
Total system memory: 24Gb. Without caching, the copy speed is stable at 70mb/s. On the target disk (Cluster Size: 4kb) PrimoCache was configured with the parameters: Level1: 4096mb, Level2: Disabled, Block Size: 4kb, Strategy: Write-data Only, Defer-Write: 60s, Mode: (tried everything - the difference is not significant). Until reaching Deferred Blocks 100%, the speed of copying is 100mb/s. After 100% the speed drops and starts to jump from 3mb/s to 20mb/s (slower than without caching!). Is this a normal behavior or bug?
Slow writing
Re: Slow writing
for writing huge amount of data, you may need to set defer-write to a small value like 1~10s.
Re: Slow writing
So I should avoid overflow of the Deferred Blocks buffer?
Re: Slow writing
When the deferred data amount overflows the cache buffer, PrimoCache will flush some data in an urgent way. This will cost the performance.