Every time Apple comes out with a new release of the Mac OS we like to test performance at various disk cache settings. The disk cache is set in the Memory control panel. MacBench profiles popular software programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Word 6.0 and QuarkXpress among a variety of others and applies these profiles to the various subsystems being tested. Click Here for more information on MacBench.
Higher scores indicate better performance.
The results above would seem to indicate that 2MB and not Apple's default of 4MB provides the best balance between performance and RAM usage. MacSpeedZone welcomes your comments on these results. The results below measure the percentage of time taken to relaunch the specified application. During a relaunch certain information is taken from the Disk Cache rather from the drive accelerating relaunch time. In this case, Shorter bars indicate better performance .