The FS-Cache Project works with network filesystems like NFS to maintain a local on-disk cache of network files. The project is split into a kernel module (fscache) and a dæmon (cachefilesd), which ...

The disk cache in OS X can sometimes use a fair amount of the system's RAM, and clearing it can help you figure out how much RAM your applications and system processes are using. Topher, an avid Mac ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...