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.

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

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

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.

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.

Graphic courtesy of the Infiniband Trade Association. Disk access times for hard and solid-state drives are on the left and RAM and cache access times are on the right. Micron's 3D Xpoint NVM ...

Why it matters: A RAM drive is traditionally conceived as a block of volatile memory "formatted" to be used as a secondary storage disk drive. RAM disks are extremely fast compared to HDDs or even ...

We've talked about moving your cache files to a RAM disk to speed things up, but it turns out Firefox has this feature built in. Here's how to turn it on.