On 8/13/02 9:45 PM, "Jim Katz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anybody got other ideas like that? Is there a way to turn off some of the
>memory or other things I might not be using that add to power drain and heat
>production?
You don't mention what OS you are using. I can't find a hard disk activity
monitor to test my theory in OSX but here is what I found in OS9.
For word processing I used Simple Text. I would copy Simple Text to a RAM
Disk and launch that copy.
At the very beginning of a session I open a Simple Text document that
contained all of the letters, numbers and punctuation marks.
`1234567890-=qwertyuiop[]\asdfghjkl;'zxcvbnm,./
~!@#$%^&*()_+QWERTYUIOP{}|ASDFGHJKL:"ZXCVBNM<>?
This loaded all of these characters into RAM so it was not necessary to
access the hard disk whenever I typed a character I hadn't typed before. I
would then open a new blank document and spun down the hard disk. The hard
disk would only wake up when I saved my work.
Since OSX doesn't have a RAM disk feature and Simple Text has been replaced
by Text Edit, I am at a loss if these suggestions will work. Does anyone
know of a Hard Disk activity indicator for OSX?
Ken
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