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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Defragmentation software ?
- Date: Sun, 21 Jan 96 01:57:08
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- John S. Burger (jsburger@xmission.com) wrote:
- : On or about 19-Jan-96 17:14:45 Steve Powell typed the following words about
- : "Re: Defragmentation software ?". My reply is thus...
- : >>
- : >> It is very reliable and has never cause any problems on my machine. On
- : >> I will say about it is it is a *very big* memory hog. Takes a lotta me
- : >> optimize big disk partions. Takes almost 5 meg RAM to optimize my 400
- : >> drive partitions, leaving a little over 1 Meg RAM for ReOrg's caching.
- : >> So, you better have a lotta memory in your machine if you only have one
- : >> on your 600 MB HD.
- :
- : SP> Rubbish, ReOrg seems to dynamically allocate memory resourses, the more
- : SP> you've got the mor it uses and the faster it'll do the job!!!
- :
- : That is the way I thought it worked also. Every time I have added memory to my
- : machine it uses more. It does not *REQUIRE* tons of memory, it just uses as
- : much as is available.
-
- It does require a certain fixed amount of memory for a given hard disk size to
- store a map of the layout of files of the HD. This will of course increase as
- HD size/number of files increases. Any remaining memory will be used for the
- caches during optimisation.
-
- -- Mat.
-