Embaresed by the thought that a 386 33Mhz machine was running
speedchk.bat in the same time as this pedigree Apricot
LS Pro 486DX-4 100Mhz local bus system running Windoze 95, I have
examined further....
Mr Verge will you stop laughing, and pay attention.
Test 1. Windoze 95 ....shelled to dos prompt.
Config: Himem.sys /numhandles=64
dos=high,UMB
ramdrive.sys 4096 512 512 /e
emm386 noems
NO EXTERNAL DISKCACHE
Results: Harddisk c: 21 and 21 seconds
Ramdrive e: 19 and 19 seconds
Technical assessment = Disapointing ! about the same as the 386 result
given earlier.
Test 2. Re-boot to MS-DOS MODE
Config: himem.sys /humhandles=64
dos=high,umb
ramdrive.sys 4096 512 512 /e
emm386 noems
Results: Harddisk c: 59 and 66 seconds
Whoops....no diskcache
.......smartdrv C+ 2048
Harddisk c: 17 and 18 seconds
Ramdrive e: 4 and 4 seconds
Hmmmmm ! Very interesting. Now you can laugh !!!!
I'm not sure what to make of it yet, but it seems to show
"whatever we are doing" is 20% faster on harddisk C: in MS-DOS MODE
rather than shelling out to the DOS PROMPT from Windoze 95.
One difference is Smartdrv V the internal cache.
But the strange thing is there isn't much improvment using the
ramdrive at the W95 DOS PROMPT, a gain of 2 seconds only.
A ramdisk should be much faster....but not according to this test.
But theres a whopping 475% speed improvement on the ramdrive after
the re-boot to MS-DOS MODE, and finaly we have some respectable
figures....4 and 4.
I will repeat using the "bootdisk" so apples are apples and will
report back after doing the "proper tests" with the test O/S.
Hope this has been entertaining....and maybe even of help ;-)
All the best, Laurie
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