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- From: macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole)
- Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.040823.9415@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <CMM.0.90.2.714995016.terjeh@maud.ifi.uio.no> <1992Aug28.222436.7248@wam.umd.edu> <Sep.2.08.09.51.1992.3949@ratt.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 04:08:23 GMT
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- In article <Sep.2.08.09.51.1992.3949@ratt.rutgers.edu> andrewsr@ratt.rutgers.edu (Rich Andrews) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug28.222436.7248@wam.umd.edu> macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole) writes:
- >
- >
- >> this sounds very familiar!) Other pointers...don't put Windows on a Stacker
- >> drive, trash Himem.sys, don't blame Smartdrv for everything, and most
- >> important of all...give Windows every bit of memory you can spare.
- >>
- >
- >> Mario
- >>
- >
- >Wouldn't putting Windows on a stacker drive speed up performance?
- >
-
- Nope...Stacker compresses (or tries to) everything...whatever is on the stacker
- drive will have too be decompressed first...hence, any disk i/o operations will
- take a tad bit longer. Of course, if you have files that are loaded in all at
- once..then you can save space by keeping them on the stacker drive. I keep all
- of my windows apps on the stacker drive...except for windows itself and Norton
- Desktop.
-
- >What is wrong with HIMEM.SYS?
-
- Nothing...I just hate using MS supplied utils...it's liking using Paintbrush or
- Write instead of using PhotoStyler or MS Word. I got hold of QEMM and I like
- it very much...of course, only after months of taming it.
-
- >
- >TO increase my performance, I disabled the RAMDISK and gave the memory
- >to SMARTDRV. I installed Stacker to increase (double) the size of
- >SMARTDRV's cache and decrease the size of files on the disk. But,
- >adding an ATI Ultra also made a gain in speed. Not as much as I
- >expected, however.
-
- Once again...your caching has to be decompressed and recompressed before any
- action is taken. If you're running a 486-50 there probably wouldn't be any
- problems...but for me and my 386-25...I would rather keep any disk i/o
- intensive action away from Stacker.
-
- Mario
-
-
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