1 votes 1 votes Block or Buffer caches are used to (A) improve disk performance (B) handle interrupts (C) increase the capacity of main memory (D) speed up main memory Read operations omveer asked Aug 29, 2016 omveer 1.0k views answer comment Share Follow See 1 comment See all 1 1 comment reply focus _GATE commented Aug 29, 2016 reply Follow Share Intutive reason can be think , when we use cache of larger size than it will hold more data .as now when cpu refers to cache than the operation may be hit or miss .depending upon the words that whether they are present in cache blocks or not. Generally caches are used to speed up the whole process .more cache size include more frequent referred data so there will be the chance of improving the speed of the required operation . So i think d option ? 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.
2 votes 2 votes I think A option is correct. Because buffer temporarily stores the data, No need to access the disk everytime. Hence disk performance increases. Shubham Sharma 2 answered Aug 29, 2016 Shubham Sharma 2 comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
0 votes 0 votes Answer is b? Pavan Kumar Munnam answered Aug 29, 2016 Pavan Kumar Munnam comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
0 votes 0 votes Ans: A ref: https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiGsJOq7qPWAhVFpo8KHYKlCrgQFggpMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tldp.org%2FLDP%2Fsag%2Fhtml%2Fbuffer-cache.html&usg=AFQjCNFTGu4JnoRF2asn1LbJH7_EODhqFA rishu_darkshadow answered Sep 13, 2017 rishu_darkshadow comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.