Introduction

Welcome to Cacheman.

Have you ever wondered as to why some of your programs run

so slowly ? Well, the fault lies with the disk cache management

of  Windows 95.

It takes up almost all of the available physical memory.

When the system runs out of RAM, Windows starts to use virtual

memory instead of flushing the disk caches. To change this crazy

behavior you have to edit the system.ini file.

Cacheman is a GUI based tool used to optimize the cache

settings and change the mentioned INI file. The result is a

much better system performance on most systems, due to

the reduced use of the swap file.

Cacheman is now Giftware !

Please do the decent thing and send me a gift.

This could be anything from a postcard to a shareware

program written by you. Best of all would be a money donation  ;-)

Thomas Reimann

Muehlgasse 10

96450 Coburg

Germany

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Permission to use, copy and distribute this software and its

documentation for non-commercial purpose is hereby granted,

provided that it is not modified.


Disclaimer Agreement

Users of Cacheman must accept this disclaimer of warranty:

" Cacheman is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties,

expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties

of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes

no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result

from the use of Cacheman."


Menus

File Menu:

Save

Exit

Save & Exit

Optimize Disk Cache Size Menu:

Standard System

Cd Writer

Power User

Remove Cache Optimization


contact
Support & Contact

If you have any fresh ideas, suggestions, bug reports, please

do not hesitate to e-mail me at

Thomas Reimann :  Shark@Flix.de

Ultimatum Productions: http://ultimatum.home.pages.de


save
The save command is used to write the disk cache size

to the system.ini file located in the windows directory.


exit
The exit command is used to exit from the program.

If any changes has been done Cacheman asks whether

to save them or not.


save_exit
The save & exit command is used to exit the program after

the disk cache size has been saved.


New in 2.0

• free memory display

• 3 different optimization methods

• remove capability has been implemented

• improved help file

• program status changed to giftware


User Comments

From Bjorns 3d-World News , 20 March 1998

http://www.bjorn3d.com/3dnews.html :

Cacheman

Thanks to RacerX for this tip.

' This nice utility called Cacheman configures the Win95 vcache for

optimal settings which stops wasted memory usage and causes much

less Swap file usage. On my 64meg system I save an average of 8-16megs

of memory after installing this utility !! A lot of the "pauses" in Quake2 and

other games literally go away !!

Best of all, it's freeware. By the way, this is NOT a compression utility,

so there's no speed penalty or anything to worry about. '

•  Note: Cacheman status has changed to Giftware

After a review Cacheman has been awarded

     The Showcase Star - Best Of Class

http://www.ultranet.com/~ss4/cacheman.htm


How to use the program ?

In the program window you can see the free available

physical memory. After the optimization process the

amount of free memory should increase !

Choose between one of the optimizations methods in

the Optimize Disk Cache Size Menu. To make the

settings permament use the Save command, located

in the File menu.

Exit the program and reboot your system to activate the

new disk cache adjustments.

Advanced Settings:

You can change the 2 slide bars or the edit fields

to manually set the disk cache size.


Standard System
This optimization method is suitable for most

users. The disk cache will be bigger than

with the other 2 methods and the minimum

and maximum settings will differ.


Cd Writer
This optimization method is right for

systems with a cd writer. The minimum

and maximum settings do not differ,

so that windows does not waste

CPU time to permamently calculate

the disk cache size.


Power User
This optimization method is devised for the

power user who runs several big applications

at the same time.


Remove Cache Optimization
With this command the disk cache size will

be handled by windows, the limits imposed

by Cacheman on the disk cache size will be

removed.