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- From: kreinddm@ucunix.san.uc.edu (David M Kreindler)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: 5mb for os/2
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.161611.29378@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 16:16:11 GMT
- References: <Bu6782.3sr@obiwan.uucp>
- Sender: David Kreindler
- Organization: University of Cincinnati
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- In article <Bu6782.3sr@obiwan.uucp> wayne@obiwan.uucp (Wayne Willcox) writes:
- >I have a a 386 40mghrtz machine with four meg of ram
- >and os/2 run's really slow, I suspect this is because
- >of the ram disk since I don't have enough memory and
- >the hard drive run's virtually non stop. If I add 4 256k
- >dram to my board will this make much difference?
-
- I can't say to what extent the extra meg will improve performance;
- however, by all accounts, 4MB is too little to run HPFS. My own
- experience is that 5MB plus HPFS *is* a significant improvement on 5MB
- plus FAT. I've been running OS/2 on a Northgate 386/25 with around 180
- MB of disk space. I had my system configured exclusively with a FAT file
- system for a couple of months, switched to HPFS on my 120MB drive, and
- noticed improvements in the performance of just about everything that
- involved a lot of disk access. (I'm a big Magellan fan; the time
- lag between program start and the point where it was ready to run
- dropped in half once I started using HPFS.)
-
- Hope this helps.
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