On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Chris Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I only have one segment right now, so I've got one of each of these: > > .tis file: 730MB > .frq files: 9KB > .prx file: 26KB
That's pretty much impossible (way too small). Double check those numbers. > If I'm understanding you (and Mike) properly, then even though it's > the prx file that contains the actual position info, you can't get to > that info quickly unless the tis file is also cached in RAM by the OS. Right. > I have to admit I don't know that much about OS disk caching. Can I > more or less pretend that the OS uses a least recently used (LRU) > algorithm? Pretty much. How much physical RAM do you have? -Yonik