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- From: Darren Metcalfe <downinit@teleport.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: ShapeShifter Filedisk access through the
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:10:15 -0800
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Sean - Curtin wrote:
-
- > Now, I'm not getting optimum space utilization because of the arbitrary
- > choice of 4096, but since it's a 120 meg drive and I'm only using 30 and 50
- > meg filedisks on it, it's not that big a deal. The speed increase is well
- > worth it. YMMV.
- >
- > Someone mentioned addbuffers. I tried this originally, and 256 512 byte
- > buffers doesn't go anywhere near as fast as 32 4096 byte buffers (my
- > current configuration.) Again, YMMV.
-
- Setting Block Size to 4096 on my partition sped things up very well, so I
- tried 16k blocks, no perceptable difference, but I left it that way. Is there
- any danger to setting it that high?
-
- CB, my $40 is in the mail...
-
- --
- Darren Metcalfe
- downinit@teleport.com
-
- "I met myself in a dream, and I just wanted to tell ya,
- everything was all right, I'm beginning to see the light."
- - Lou
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