From: "A. Sinan Unur" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Slow disk (was: Complaints about DJGPP) Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 11:10:32 -0400 Organization: Cornell University http://www.cornell.edu Sender: asu1 AT cornell DOT edu (Verified) Message-ID: <33885668.27B0@cornell.edu> References: Reply-To: asu1 AT cornell DOT edu NNTP-Posting-Host: cu-dialup-0096.cit.cornell.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 25 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk > On 23 May 1997, Esa A E Peuha wrote: > > > I have an old 40MB hard disk attached to my Pentium motherboard. > > With this combination, it takes some 30 seconds to compile a "Hello > > world" program. (I have set up 3MB RAM disk and 4MB disk cache, as > > the FAQ tells.) and you are surprised? how full is the 40 Mb drive and how fragmented is it? in addition to slow seek times and transfer speeds, if the drive is more than 50% full and fragmented the heads will be moving all over the place. if you have enough ram, i would say make the disk cache larger and see if that makes a difference. in fact, it might help to get rid of the ram drive, use that ram for the disk cache and point the temp directory to (and the cwsdpmi swap file) to another pyhsical hard disk. -- Sinan ******************************************************************* A. Sinan Unur WWWWWW |--O+O mailto:sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu C ^ http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/asu1/ \ ~/ Unsolicited e-mail is _not_ welcome, and will be billed for. *******************************************************************