Michael,
Since you don't have a RAM drive set up to handle temp directory, and
since you have 627 conventional memory *with* EPPPD loaded, for heavens
sake YES, you want smartdrive to stay!
If you don't believe me, do this experiment: With smart drive loaded,
go read your mail. Start timing the process from when you hit "I" for
inbox; select message 1 and as soon as it writes to the screen click the
"next message" arrow at the top. Do this a total of 5 messages and
check the time it took. Then REM out smartdrive, reboot and time the
same process with the same messages again. You should see a significant
decrease in speed and increase in the time it takes to load and view
those 5 pieces of e-mail.
If the time differential between disk cached and not disk cached doesn't
bother you, then don't bother with smartdrive ... but you have more than
enough memory for Arachne as it now stands.
l.d.
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:10:00 +0000, Michael L. Dawley wrote:
> Hello all,
> On some computers I have smartdrv.exe loaded, and I am
> wondering if it really does any good. It's one more item
> that I have to either place in conventional memory or
> load it high.
> l. Does Arachne benefit from smartdrv?
> 2. Is it only for windows programs like Netscape,
> Eudora, etc?
> 3. On machines with only 8 MB ram, is it of more
> value, than say, on a box with 32 MB ram?
> I've attached a mem.txt to this email that shows
> the current setup on this machine.
> Thanks,
> Michael L. Dawley
> Pearl, Mississippi
> --Arachne 1.50 on AMD 486DX4-120 16MB Ram 2GB HDD--
> -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/
> [Attached file: mem.txt]
-- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
