Hi, On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Zbigniew <zbigniew2...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/3/15, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com>: > >>> I noticed that pauses while using "edit" shipped with FreeDOS - can it >>> really be that slow when saving edited file? >> >> How big is the file? (Last I checked, FD EDIT only supported 64 kb >> files.) > > Like I wrote: about 2 KB.
Hmmm, no, that shouldn't take more than a second. >> It's a 16-bit real mode editor compiled by a wimpy compiler, >> what'd you expect? ;-) So no, it's not fast, but it shouldn't take >> long. > > But even compiled using anything wimpy - can it still be noticeably > slow on 2 GHz CPU? Depends on the algorithms, but normally I'd hope not! >> What file system? I think FAT32 is slightly slower. And of course >> fragmentation hurts (so defrag!). Of course, it could be a hardware >> (faulty disk) or driver issue, but first try a different editor (e.g. >> VILE, FTE). > > It's FAT32. But - as I wrote - my HDD has 16 MB of its own internal > cache (it's STM3320418AS), then IMHO I shouldn't notice any pause > while saving such short file. Even when not using any software cache > at all. It shouldn't pause at all if using a generic hard drive, but perhaps yours is flash-based, e.g. USB or SSD?? If not, then it's some other conflict. > I would to add, that no such problems when working under Linux - this > makes me think, that NVIDIA SATA perhaps needs some kind of "software > booster" to exploit its full potential? We've got nowadays > "win-printers", "win-modems" - and instead of soundcards programmed by > setting their registers contents, there are just ALC codecs - perhaps > now it's time for "win-controllers", crippled "by default", when not > using additional software? Modern computers are 100x more complex than they were 10-20 years ago, so it could be anything. And yes, something like Windows has more support by default (e.g. ACPI) than most other OSes (with Linux second, natch). But I don't know exactly what's going on here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
