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- From: hamzy@cse.fau.edu (Mark Hamzy)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Couldn't stick it out...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.234349.22521@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 23:43:49 GMT
- References: <l75b16INN8o7@spock.usc.edu> <1992Jul27.103456.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca> <mg.712256058@elan>
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- Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
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- In article <mg.712256058@elan> mg@elan (Michael Golan) writes:
- >roger@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
- >
- >>> For all it's "32 bit advanced coding", just about everything I do is
- >>> slower than the equivalent operation in Windows.
- >
- >I must say I tried WIN3.1 yesterday on my system, with ATI vantage, and it
- >really is fast! why is os2 so slow (in comparision)?
- >
- >BTW, its a good idea to unfregment the OS2 partition (by booting dos).
- >Pctools compress version 6.0 works, at least if you dont re-order directories
- >(I didnt try it, I worry about it touching the ext.attr. bits)
- >This does speed OS2 up (if you have FAT. if you have HPFS, good luck.
- >it might be more freg. resistent, but it cant prevent it...) seems like
- >the OS2SYS.INI file gets fregmented, and really slow things down. I had
- >e.g. the 'OS2 system' folder take 8 seconds to open, compared to 2 when
- >it was 'new'. Software that degrade with use, ha? :-)
-
- UGHH ... that sends shivers down my spine. I may be wrong but here is my
- view: On a FAT file system, the EAs are stored pretty much separately from
- the file itself. Those .EA files around your system have hard coded "pointers"
- in them so moving them around is dangerous.
-
- Correct??
-
- BTW: I believe that the system ini files are cached.
-