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- From: walls@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Gerald Walls)
- Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.160850.8249@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com>
- Organization: Honeywell Air Transport Systems Division
- References: <1992Aug28.222436.7248@wam.umd.edu> <Sep.2.08.09.51.1992.3949@ratt.rutgers.edu> <1992Sep3.040823.9415@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 16:08:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep3.040823.9415@wam.umd.edu> macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole) writes:
- >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:
- >>
- >>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.
- >
- >>
- >>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
-
- very interesting. on my ancient 386-20 no-cache I notice no system
- speed differences using Stacker. I cache the uncompressed drive with
- Smartdrive which increases the actual sectors cached, meaning more actual
- disk sectors are in memory, increasing access speed. I'd rather my
- computer take the time to compress/decompress than take the time
- to light up my disk light.
-