application. Dynamic Cache Allocation is recommended for most caching purposes. All that you manually need to allocate is the amount of RAM you wish to set aside for total system caching. A dialog box will appear asking for the number of blocks you wish to set aside as a total buffer pool size. One block equals 512 bytes of RAM. For example, 128 blocks equals 64K bytes of RAM. This memory will be unavailable to programs or other utilities. The default setting is 256 blocks, equaling 128K of RAM for caching. While the RamPak utilities default to specify that all drives will be dynamically allocated, the user may enable or disable the cache on specific disk drives, doing this by using the Dynamic Cache Allocation menu in the same manner as the Manual Cache Allocation menu.

As an example of Dynamic Cache Allocation, if you are running an application in which a large RAM cache would be beneficial on drive 2 and you currently have no cache specified there, the RamPak utility will automatically take RAM from other caches or from unused cache memory, and add it where it is needed. All Dynamic Cache Allocation is performed around your RAM disk. All manual settings within the

RamPak Utilities program are lost when Dynamic Cache Allocation is implemented.Statistics

RESET STATISTICS COUNTER TO ZERO

This selection resets statistic counters to zero. Sets Reads, Hits, % and Writes to Ø. This is useful for picking a starting point from which you can gather statistics about your cache.

DISABLE STATISTICS DISPLAY

Prevents you from viewing the Statistics’ dialog

box.

ENABLE STATISTICS DISPLAY

Enables you to view the Statistics” dialog box.

Abort Caches

Disables caching on all disk drives

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