Sorry if I was being vague. The beta software was a performance acceleration tool which dedicates a portion of the system memory for I/O cache together with a predictive algorithm for doing prefetching of data. The net effect is that in most databases and other I/O intensive applications, a 3-4x performance improvement is often observed. (It is a well known fact that in most applications, the performance bottleneck lies at the disk.)
Since mileage varies depending on systems and applications (for example, there would not be any improvement at all if the disk was *not* the bottleneck), I was curious if the slow library scans would be affected or not. And as a matter of fact, I did install the tool and saw huge improvments in many applications, but I did not do any specific testing against the library scans - just a subjective seat-of-the-pants feel of "yup, that's faster..." This was all done quite some time ago, and I forgot about the tool and left it installed. Yesterday we announced release of the product, and that jogged my memory, so I did a search on the forums, and did not see as many posts about slow scans as I was expecting. I was curious if this is an issue that has been "fixed" or not. I plan on running tests again collecting empiricle data, but I'm travelling for the next 3 weeks and therefore am left to muse. -- ob_kook SB2 --> Axiom passive pre --> Portal Paladin monoblocks --> Dynaudio Contour 1.3 MKII ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ob_kook's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1383 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38752 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
