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.

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.

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

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?

SoC designers have a problem: RAM is slow and it can't keep up with the CPU. The workaround is known as cache memory.

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.

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 ...