On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:32:06 +0000, Flip ter Biecht wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:51:17 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> IMHO, Something must be very wrong with your config.
>> On this P150 from "switch-on" to "autoexec done" is 36 seconds.
>> (that's right.... 36sec)
>> The last line of autoexec runs arr.bat which....
>> 1) sets-up a 64mb RamDisk (this machine has 80mb of Ram)
>> 2) unzips Arachne to the RamDisk
>> 3) starts Arachne
>> 4) dials and connects
>> 5) downloads eMail
>> 6) exits Arachne
>> 7) copies eMail over to HDD
> Nice, But why wouldn't you just save 2 megs extra for a diskcache, and
> put mail directly to the hdd? (Obviously the bottleneck while
> downloading is modem speed, not hdd writes, and mail on a ramdisk is
> still quite a risky business with Arachne, especially since a lot of us
> tend to share the more risky URL's...
That is why the eMails are automatically copied to HDD as soon as the
D/L is complete.
I then restart Arachne on RamDisk with "arr.bat 170"
All reading, deleteing, replying, attachments, move to different folder,
etc..., etc,.... is all done on RamDisk. When I'm done, everything that
needs to be saved is copied over to the HDD.
Nothing that is simply "temporary" (the .CNMs that were coverted to HTM,
the .TBS files that have been sent and now deleted, the temp files from
decoded attachments, the several differant .IDX files, the temp files in
cache that are no longer needed.... etc,... etc...), all of this temp
stuff has never been on the HDD but only on RamDisk.
This helps to keep the HDD from getting fragmented.
My line of thinking is this..
"Why write anything to the HDD that I know for a fact is going to be
deleted in just a very short time"??? ;-)
--
Glenn
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