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.

Clearing your RAM cache is often touted as a way to improve system performance, but it can actually slow it down. Here's how to do it anyway.

CPU cache can have a big effect on processor and system performance. But what is cache, and what does it do? Read on to find out.

One of the most important parts of a processor is the buffer memory, also called the cache. What is it responsible for and how does it work?

Cache and memory in the many-core era As CPUs gain more cores, resource management becomes a critical performance … ...

Graphic courtesy of the Infiniband Trade Association. Disk access times for hard and solid-state drives are on the left and RAM and cache access times are on the right. Micron's 3D Xpoint NVM ...

System-on-chip (SoC) architects have a new memory technology, last level cache (LLC), to help overcome the design obstacles of bandwidth, latency and power consumption in megachips for advanced driver ...

How to Set RAM Cache in Firefox. Web browsers like Firefox store a number of commonly downloaded files on the computer in what's called a cache. Storing these files saves the browser from having ...

A Cache-Only Memory Architecture design (COMA) may be a sort of Cache-Coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access (CC- NUMA) design. not like in a very typical CC-NUMA design, in a COMA, each shared-memory ...

Multiple OEMs are marketing systems as if their total memory loadout is equivalent to their actual DRAM + Optane cache. That's not how this works.