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- From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: system slowdown?
- Message-ID: <9614@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 02:24:38 GMT
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- >>Things were very fast when I first installed, but they slowed down
- >>considerably within a few days.
- >
- >The description you provide seems to suggest disk fragmentation. Are
- >you running FAT? If so, you may wish to defragment.
-
- It's all HPFS. I did discover (see the separate posting) that my
- os2sys.ini file had grown to 11MB (!); I don't know whether this could
- have been a factor. I've had to do a complete reinstall since (as
- described in the posting about os2sys.ini) and things are peppy again.
-
- --David
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