I have a application with a large number of small files, it would appear from the disk cache counters that the files are generally not getting cached for repeated reads.
I suspect that this is because the read load is distributed across so many files that very few of them are being accessed frequently enough or consistently enough that the OS believes they merit caching.
I have a plan to consolidate the contents of the files to bring down the number. Making the files too large will bring it's own problems. So I want to consolidate to the minimum point which would improve the caching performance.
In what way do the following factors affect Windows Server file caching behaviour: - The number of files accessed during a period - The size of the files - The number of times a specific file is accessed during a period - Whether a file has just been read or also written to
... and what factors have I missed?
