How to empty the Directory-Name-Lookup-Cache?
- by mutzel
I'm having speed problems with a Windows software that is looking up files in several directories on a NTFS formatted HDD. In order to find out why and in which settings the problem is occurring I set up a test scenario at my local PC.
But this did not work as well as I expected. After the program did the first scan on all directories any additional scans on the same directories are done way faster than at the first scan. I assume that the directory names and there containing file names were cached by Windows.
Is it somehow possible to either disable or empty this cache, if it is even existing?