An intermediate data storage area with high performance but limited capacity. The term "cache" can refer to hardware cache (on a processor) or software cache (which stores commonly used values in a computer's memory).
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How to set IIS6 cache to work as IIS7 Output caching
I have a web site working on an Server 2003 SP2 with IIS 6.
I have the same site working on an Server 2008 R2 SP1 with IIS 7.
In IIS 7 there's a possibility to enable the output caching for desired ...
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How to disable Itunes (pre-)?caching of artwork?
I found pages on the net, that say to disable it in "Settings/Advanced/Performance", but my iTunes (10.6.1.7 on Windows 7) doesn't seem to have such thing - there are preferences/advanced, but no ...
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Effects of turning off the browser cache
What are the effects of turning off the cache in a browser (for instance, using this method in Firefox):
network.http.use-cache - false
I'm building an application using PHP and it uses cookies and ...
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DNS Caching: bind vs dnsmasq vs. pdnsd [closed]
We currently are using a combination of bind and dnsmasq for dns caching, but I'm especially interested in anyones experience using pdnsd. I havn't been able to find any benchmarking comparing the ...
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Looking for cache daemon
I'm looking for a daemon that I can install on my Debian server, and can be controlled through PHP (preferably with included libraries). It must have a basic key-value cache, BUT it must never ever ...
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L2 and L3 Cache Difference?
While I understand that the computer cache is:
A CPU cache is a cache used by the central processing unit of a computer to reduce the average time to access memory. The cache is a smaller, faster ...
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Recovering Mozilla Firefox cache
Yesterday, I accidentally deleted my entire cache, and I need to find a video in it. Is there a program that can dig into Mozilla Firefox's cache for .flv files (Youtube File)?
I tried CacheViewer ...
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Using 16 GB RAM for FancyCache?
I'm currently using 4 GB of RAM as a RAM-cache using FancyCache, it's caching my SSD. It's working very well with games as load times are almost zero, it's also working well with the Adobe suite. It's ...
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How/Where does Firefox 12.0 on Mac OS X store uri maps?
I have a site that started behaving strangely yesterday in Firefox 12.0.
When clicking on a link /home/write-journal, the actual request is sent to a different URI /join.
In Safari & Chrome this ...
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Scripts failing to update with XAMPP
I've just installed XAMPP and I'm playing around with it.
When I run a simple PHP script:
<? echo"test";?>
everything is OK.
But when i update that script:
<? echo"test2";?>
I ...
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why do OS's sometimes disable caching for a memory mapped page in a page table?
I am reviewing notes for an OS exam and see that sometimes page tables have a disable caching bit, which is sometimes used in cases of memory mapped I/O. I get that memory mapped i/o takes some part ...
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How could I limit or even disable file cache on Windows Server 2008R2?
There is a machine, with a very fast RAID array, and a fast internet connection. But, it only got 8gb of mem, which runs out really quick, when the upload goes up.
Any ideas how could I disable, or ...
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Lotus Notes - Clear cache of sent group email
I have been having an issue for a while now and no one has been able to figure out how to solve it.
Our team's group email address is one of the cached email addresses in my Lotus Notes 8.5 (shows up ...
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Dropbox (Windows) storage limit
I recently asked this question in a post on the Dropbox Forums, but to no avail.
I have a small laptop running Windows 7 with a 128GB SSD; a load of Virtual Machine's are taking up excessive ...
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SMPlayer should start caching for next track already at the end of the current track to allow seamless playback
I'm playing back a concept album on CD with SMPlayer (gui to MPlayer).
It assumes that the transition between two tracks is seamless.
However, when a track ends, SMPlayer takes some time to fill the ...
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Direct Mapped Cache
My apologies if this is the wrong stackexchange for this; it just seemed like the closest one to a place that could be of help for computer architecture. For a homework problem in computer systems I ...
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Is there a way to reset Windows file cache?
When an application reads a file from a media, the first time the timing is significant as the file is indeed read, sometimes several minutes. But with subsequent reads, it only takes a few seconds ...
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video and file caching with squid lusca?
hello all i have configured squid lusca on ubuntu 11.04 version and also configured the video caching but the problem is the squid cannot configure the video more than 2 min long and the file of size ...
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AIX what exactly is file system cache?
What exactly is FS cache or file system cache in AIX.
Most of the time our performance charts show that main memory is mainly allocated for FS cache. Is this frequently read file data? or is this ...
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Windows: Disable caching of large files
I am currently dealing with very large video files, including de/encoding them and copying them around etc.
To my surprise Windows attempts to cache these video files, even though there is no point ...
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What is the domain that you append to another TLD to get the peer-to-peer squid cache?
I read awhile ago that there's a domain, something like "nyed.net" (although that isn't it, just what I'm remembering) that you append to a domain name to get a cached version. The cached version is ...
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Is the L3 cache shared by all cores for a Sandy-Bridge E Xeon CPU?
In a related question (http://superuser.com/questions/412988/impact-of-the-l3-cache-on-performance-worth-a-dual-processor-system) I asked about the benefit of a dual-CPU system in terms of doubling ...
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How to view Chrome's cached web page?
I visited a webpage but now the webpage has been removed or the server is down. I assume that Chrome has cached a version of this webpage. If so, how can I view this webpage?
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Firefox not using cache?
Some times I have issues with the wireless connection where I live. That issue is irrelevant to this (there are two IT departments managing this thing; there's nothing I can do about it). Most of ...
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Best approach to utilize RamDisk for Chrome?
I use a lot of tabs and after a while less recently opened tabs take some time to become responsive, which I guess is because they're being un-cached to HDD as they're not required.
So after ...
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How do I make google chrome open a cached copy of unavailable pages automatically?
When I open a link to an unavailable page, I get the "Oops! Google Chrome could not find http://example.com" message and a link to open a cached copy to it. Is there any way (even if it is through an ...
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Force Windows 7 to store thumbnails locally
I want Windows 7 to store thumbnails cache files in the same folder as the files (thumbs.db) instead of using the centralized location for all thumbnails (By default ...
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How to reload a page in Opera without cache?
I'm trying to get Opera 11.61 to reload a page without using cache whatsoever. So far I've tried shift-clicking on the reload button, Ctrl-R, Shift-R, F5. None of these work. The only way I've found ...
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Difference between caching & gzip for static pages
I have implemented all caching methods such as, memcache, diskcache, and also tried GZIP. Is there any source I can refer to which explains the difference between them.
I tried memcache it is really ...
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meaning of files in cpu folder of linux
What's the meaning of files in the folder /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index0?
I see these files in the folder:
coherency_line_size number_of_sets shared_cpu_list size ...
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Can I exclude a partition from Linux disk caching?
I created a MDADM RAID0 disk with two SSD hard disk and mounted it at /media/ssd.
Is it possible to prevent Linux from disk caching reads/writes to/from this mounted partition? This would be wasted ...
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Does Intel Smart Response provide any statistics on the cache usage?
I've set up my Z68-based Core i7 PC with a 60GB SSD dedicated as a Smart Response cache drive. Is there any way I can get any statistics out of it? It would be nice to have some information on how ...
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In Memory File Cache in Windows 7
Edit: This question didn't help. How can I keep a file in Windows 7's cache?
I am looking for a way to speed up access to certain directories and files that I access often.
I am using a ...
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Getting the cache hit ratio (read / writes)
Is there any way to find out what the read/write cache hit ratio is in a Red Hat Linux Server (64 bit)?
I tried to use sar (9.x), but can't find it.
The reason is, because I'm migrating to another ...
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Setup Intel SSD Caching on Z68 chipset with Windows already installed
According to this article about the Asus P8Z68 motherboard, to use the Intel SSD Caching, I need to enable RAID mode before installing Windows 7. What if it's already installed? Is there not a way to ...
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How does firefox decide which cache to put a component in
If you type:
about:cache
into the firefox addressbar, you see some very interesting information about what is cached. Some files go into the memory cache and some into the disk cache. How does ...
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How to cache windows share locally
My IT department provides me with space on a file share on a server, which is backed up. Ideally I would like to work straight out of this directory because then backups are not my responsibility. ...
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Ubuntu - delete local dns cache?
To fight against my procrastination I changed /etc/hosts on my Ubuntu (11.10) laptop. The /etc/hosts looks now like
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 plus.google.com
127.0.0.1 twitter.com
and ...
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What is the whole function and effect of “Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing on the device”
In Windows 7, using the Device Manager, bringing up the properties of a disk, and going to the Policies tab, there are 2 switch items. The write cache, which this question it not about.
and
[X] ...
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Set Firefox to NEVER use Cache?
Can I set Firefox to never use cache?
This is for development, to be sure I am always looking at my latest work. (I might ask the same type of question for Eclipse/Tomcat too. Building a webapp with ...
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How can I use my small SSD as a cache for a larger hard disk?
I would like to use a (small) SSD disk as a cache for a large hard disk. I realize there are hardware-based products that do this: HighPoint RocketHybrid HBA, Intel SmartResponse and others. There is ...
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How to force OS to commit X MB cache for a VMWare virtual machine image file?
I have a Windows Vista inside a VMWare workstation virtual machine, which I need to boot as fast as possible (for testing certain software).
I can commit about 4GB of RAM for cache, which, in ...
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Avoid file system cache during read/write to flash memory
Is there a way to do kind of a direct i/o to the flash part on a portable consumer electronic device like iPhone etc. I want to do this to characterize the flash part performance and completely want ...
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Skip-the-server-cache feature in browsers
Years ago, I used Lynx (the Web browser). And it had a neat feature: you could follow a link normally, or you could specify that you wanted a non-cached copy. Regular link loading, or link reloading. ...
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Why some websites recognize data after deleting history/cache/cookies?
The following website for example:
myopenid.com
What i do the erase all traces:
Firefox -> Clear history -> All (cache,cookies,history,..)
Deleting Flash cookies manually ...
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After scheduled Microsoft Security Essentials scan finishes, whole system is slow
I have scheduled Microsoft Security Essentials (on Windows 7) to scan my whole hard drive every night at 2 a.m. When I start using my computer in the morning, the scan is complete, but the whole ...
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how to make caches with equal bitline and wordline lengths?
We know to minimize delay of cache structures in microprocessors, the bitline wire length and wordline wire length should be relatively the same. So in other words, cache modules in processors should ...
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auto save all visited pages in firefox
I searched for this on google, but could not find. So is there any add-on which automatically saves all the pages I visit in some cache, so that I can access them in offline mode also. I am using ...
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How to change the location where Windows XP caches its RAM or temporary files?
I'm using SSD as my OS drive, and I can say its really slow when a painting program uses the undo memory, it stores them somewhere, which I dont know where, but i guess its using the SSD since i cant ...
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Where is the local cached version of a streamed video?
I had opened a video website and watched a streamed video which has been completely buffered. I want to get a copy of the video, which I know is located somewhere in my hard-disk because it's ...
