]> www.moka5.com - Increasing cache size - Comments http://www.moka5.com/node/476 Comments for "Increasing cache size" en The recommended size of the http://www.moka5.com/node/476#comment-530 The recommended size of the cache will depend on several factors: 1) The number of LivePCs concurrently downloaded 2) The size of each LivePC To determining the cache: The "cache-control.exe stats" will report the cache status. This shows that 144 MBs are used and 472 MBs are still available. C:\Program Files\moka5\Engine\bin>cache-control.exe stats Sector size: 2048 bytes Block size: 131072 bytes Block allocation stats capacity: 4953 (619 Mbytes) data: 1152 (144 Mbytes) (73.85% sectors used) pinned: 0 (0 Mbytes) (0.00% sectors used) table: 20 (2 Mbytes) free: 3781 (472 Mbytes) Uninstalling/Reinstall the Engine is the easiest way to create a new cache. The cache-control.exe also support the create option. This will automatically replace the current cache file so becareful. To create a 100 MB Cache, the number of 128K blocks needs to be determined. Sample: cache-control create 800 Kevin Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:39:08 -0800 Increasing cache size http://www.moka5.com/node/476 I've got 6 LivePCs installed (Nebulous, Gentoo 2006.1, FreeDOS, One Laptop Per Child, PocketDemocracy and Vista). When I installed Moka5 I accepted the default value for the cache size without understanding the implications. 1) Should I increase the cache size? 2) How do I determine how full it is? 3) How can I increase it without deinstalling and reinstalling Moka5? 4) How do I determine a proper value? Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:59:22 -0800